Can you imagine that for most of your life, you believed the names other people gave you? Labels like “orphan,” “no good,” and “unlovable.”
Tag Archives: identity
Can I Like Who I Am? [Episode 73 With Priscilla Shirer]
What do you like about yourself?
Oh, girl, sometimes liking ourselves is tough to do. It’s often easier to pinpoint our weaknesses.
Can I Cultivate Inner Peace? [Episode 62]
Free download alert! Get your “When I’m Overwhelmed, Overwhelm Me With Your Peace” printable in the links below.
A few summers ago, I woke up a little later than usual.
Can I Deal With My Mistakes in a Healthy Way? [Episode 56]
I’ll never forget the time I sang the national anthem at a 1991 Atlanta Braves game against the L.A. Dodgers.
You see, I made a stadium-sized mistake!
When You’re Feeling Small
We boarded the ship, plopped our bags in the cabin and raced out to the balcony. There I stood, leaning against the sea salt-dusted rail with my 2 BFF’s Joan and Paula. The breeze was magnificent and the fragrance of the fresh sea air was invigorating. We just stood there silently, breathing out the stress of life and inhaling the peace that only the ocean brings. We didn’t say a word until Paula spoke.
“I love the ocean because it ‘rights’ me.” She captured just how I felt with those simple words. The ocean does seem to “right” us — it puts us in our right place, doesn’t it? It reminded me of what David wrote; “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers; the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man that you take thought of him and the son of man that you care for him?” (Psalm 8: 3-4)
3 Paths Out of the “Mine” Fields
Do you ever look at your life and wonder, How did I get here? When did I become this insecure or envious or threatened or defeated — or whatever place you find yourself that you really don’t want to be?
Oh girl, those are “mine” fields! And, when I find myself stuck in one of them, it’s because I’ve become a faulty bow.
Let me explain! When we are bent on going and getting our own way, we “… are like a faulty bow” (Hosea 7:16, NIV). It’s a poetic way of saying we can easily become misguided and land where we don’t want to be.
