Today is one of those days when I wrestle with being “enough”.
It’s predictable, really. Whenever I have to deal with something that makes me feel less than enough (today it is that ugly beast called “finances”), my gremlins want to do a happy dance all over my failings and remind me of all of the other places I am less than enough.
Not good enough at keeping an ordered household.
Not good enough at making sure my children have matching socks to wear every day.
Not good enough at making money.
Not good enough at supporting my mom through cancer.
Not good enough at being an attentive mom and loving wife.
Fortunately though, I don’t have to be “good enough”. I just have to be “enough”.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” That’s my favourite Bible verse. I need truckloads of grace right now. Plus a reminder that God prefers it when I admit my weaknesses instead of trying to hide them. There’s more to work with when I’m not trying to prove myself.
I AM enough. I don’t have to be good enough. I don’t have to have all my finances in order, or fill my daughters’ drawers with clean and perfectly matched socks. I just have to show up every day, willing to accept grace, and willing to let God do something in my life.
Very powerful, Heather! And a reminder I needed today too. Thanks!
In our product orientated world it is hard to hold on to the truth you have so clearly articulated.
Amen. You are enough. xoO
We are indeed all enough. And I sometimes wonder where that balance point is when trusting in the grace of being enough tips over into – I want to say laziness but that’s not quite the right word. I believe we have to put effort into our lives to be enough, but where does that effort become frantic and when is it not, well, enough? Does that make sense?
Yes indeed, it makes sense Tess. There is certainly the danger of thinking “if I’m already enough, then I have nothing to do.” But the second part of that Bible verse is a clue… “my power is made perfect in weakness”. We don’t get to sit around doing nothing if God’s power is going to move through us. 🙂