We see likes everywhere — like it buttons, pin-it, tweet-it, shares, follows, and more — they’re scattered about like confetti. After a while it’s easy to let our identity get wrapped into the idea that our worth is based on being good enough or liked enough. Just the other day, as I was writing my post for Sisters in Bloom I had to deal with my own Am I Good Enough? insecurities. Yes. That stuff.
I’d love it if you read my story of identity and letting go of the likes and needing to rest in where I get my true like. To read click below.
And, by the way, I’ve got the sweetest post coming up. That post? Involving glue. Glitter. And my curious two year old son, Samuel. Be warned, my neat-freak readers {like myself} that it was quite the mess. We’re still finding glitter everywhere. I think Gracie had glitter in her rice last night at dinner. 😉
Blessings, friends! And thanks for popping over to Sisters in Bloom this morning. Grateful.
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Rachel- thank you for this-it can be easy to get lost there or for some to think a person may be that way-when all they truly desire is to encourage others -thank you for always sharing so much of your heart!
You know, I don’t think a week goes by when I don’t wonder, or sometimes even ask my poor husband aloud “Am I good enough?” And of course, I’m not. Who is? I don’t worry too much about whether my blog is good enough (it’s my favorite thing to do, but it’s safely on the internet where I can fail all day long and it doesn’t affect my real world), but I do have those insecurities elsewhere. I know how ya feel, hon.
PS- I commented over on that post but failed to add this: I have struggled with the “good enough” question to the point I have not written the guest post I was supposed to write: twice. I have had two opportunities and have been paralyzed by writing a guest post that would be good enough so much so, I don’t try! Horrible, right? So I need to break through this barrier…thanks, Rachel for saying it. Hope I can bust through and act on what I think I know in my heart, what I want to believe!
Oh how this resonates… why is it so easy to fall victim to this line of thinking?! I think you nailed it in what you wrote for Sisters in Bloom- our real value comes from who we are in the Lord… period. Came across this verse yesterday and thought it was applicable to this discussion-
“It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God.” ~2 Cor 3:5
Can’t believe you lost the glitter pics! It happens…
Here praying as always!
Psalms 18:28-30 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
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I think about this A LOT. One of the reasons I don’t do Pinterest is b/c of the all consuming damage it would do on my heart. I mean it’s so so true, we all thrive and survive off of like’s and approvals and even in the blogging world with our comments, and how they lift us up or tear us down. i hope for a contented heart ya know…i don’t want to be swayed by the positive or the negative, the likes or dislikes ya know…
thanks for this authentic post!