What names do you call yourself? Life giving names: Lovely, strong, enough, wise, blessed, forgiven, beloved? Or shaming names: clumsy, foolish, fat, ugly, not enough? It matters…a lot. This is something I struggle with; that’s probably why I write, speak and teach about it so often. The journey from living in shame and self contempt […]
In my teens, as a new Christian, I made a chart and mapped out the Fruits of the Spirit intending to “put them on” one by one a month at a time. I was a star student of the try harder/“check list to be a good Christian” mentality. I figured I had the “big sins” […]
Incredible truth… “She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.” Terri St. Cloud, quoted by Brene Brown We rehearse the failures and mistakes of our past…picking the scars open… over and over again. …reminders of pain, markers of shame, […]