We all have days when we feel like we’re just not enough.
You know… strong enough, smart enough, creative enough, motivated enough, or whatever your “enough” is!
Every woman has felt that way. And, when we do, we can start believing the lie that says how we feel is who we are.
Right? Surely, I am not the only one?!
Oh girl, I know I’m not the only one.
Do you live in the present truth of who you are?
Or, do you dwell on the past feelings of what you’ve done, what you regret, and who you’ve been?
Oh girl, God has given you a brand new day. It’s a day full of mercy and freedom just for you.
There’s something about routine that brings me comfort. I know what to expect and what each new day will bring.
But, there’s also something about routine – about the dailiness of life – that can make me feel stuck.
I start to feel trapped in my very own life.
Have you ever felt swallowed up in the dailiness of your life — doing the same old chores and tasks over and over and over again?
Many of you have wondered what my new book, Invisible: How You Feel is Not Who You Are, is about and why I wrote it.
So, I wanted to share with you a conversation I had recently with my daughter-in-law Caroline discussing this very thing.
One thing I can see clearly through blind eyes is that self-reliance is not all it’s cracked up to be.
I used to think that if I could just rely on myself – if I didn’t have to depend on others – then I would experience real freedom.
But, blindness just makes total self-reliance impossible. And, to be honest, sometimes dependence on others can feel like prison bars which keep me from the freedom of independence.
Just about the time I started writing the Hosea Bible Study, I became obsessed with social media.
I went from never noticing how many friends I had on Facebook to obsessively checking my number of friends and likes daily… somedays, even several times a day… okay, way too many times a day!
The reason the number mattered to me was because I was basing my identity and acceptance on how many friends, shares, and comments I had on Facebook.
