****This is one of my old posts that I am leaving up. It has earned its place on the Interwebs.
{You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are. – Sierra Boggess}
{You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are. – Sierra Boggess}
How many of
you, by show of hands, would say that you like yourself? I mean everything about yourself? You think that right now, in this moment, you
are completely okay?
How many of
you have someone in your mind that you think of as the perfect person – the person
you wish you could be?
“If only I had
her hair…"
"his confidence…:
"their smarts…"
"her talent…"
"...then people would like me.”
Can I tell
you something?
I like you.
I do. I like you. You specifically. Why?
Because you are just like that one person you admire? Because you are infallible and always do the
right thing? Because you look just like
the girls in the movies, and always have the right words to say?
How boring
would that be?
I like you
because you are you. You are
unique. You are special. You are beautiful in every way possible, no
matter what you may think when you look in the all-assessing mirror.
And here’s a
little something to think about – you get a new chance to be your best self
every single day. As my good imaginary
friend Anne of Green Gables put it, “Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
Every morning, every hour, every
minute is a new chance. Don’t dwell on
the past. Don’t worry about the
future. Be who you are right now.
Can I let you
in on a big secret?
I don’t
always like myself either. I’ll say
something awkward and then for days afterward I’ll beat myself up about it. There are many days I look in the mirror and
I hate what I see.
“Oh my word,
did I really say that? Come on,
Rosie. You can do better.”
“Why did I
have to suck my thumb for so long as a kid? Now
my teeth are crooked. Ew…”
“I can’t
believe I was so rude to that person.”
“What is
wrong with me?”
It was
especially bad in middle school. I guess
that’s the time everyone gets it. It’s
the time you start to notice other people, and notice that they notice
you. You want to be noticed but you don’t
want to stick out and sometimes you just want to be invisible unless you really
want to be seen….
It’s confusing.
Life is that
way. And for that very reason we fear
it. We fear living to our full
potential, because what if we fail at the exact moment everyone is looking at
us?
When that happens,
we must remind ourselves that no one is perfect. We must remember that life goes on.
So look in that mirror, and repeat after me:
You are
enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are.
Rosie
From Lamentations 3
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are
not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
