More Notes on Being "Enough"

More summer pictures; another day-long excursion with my kids.
At this point in August, we were making sure to scratch off all the remaining activities on our annual "Summer List."

We rode the trolley through town and beach hopped.

Magnificent views

Moody beach at high-tide

The pools were filled with people. It took some serious strategizing, patience, and interesting maneuvers to get these shots!

As a follow-up to my last post (HERE), I had more to say on the topic of being "enough." For various reasons, I think many women struggle with this one. It can be blamed on our backgrounds/upbringing, on our own proud expectations and comparisons, on toxic relationships, on people and their unhelpful comments, or on a society that says "we can do it all." I'm sure there are other reasons as well.

But it's still true. I'm still not enough.

We sing of it from the pew-- words like wretched, worm, broken, vile, worthless... they are all true. We have nothing to offer God, no basis on which to claim righteousness or acceptability. We have nothing but filth beyond comprehension. Less than nothing.

BUT! If you surrender your life to Christ -- all that you think you have and all that you wish you were -- He gives you LIFE! And HOPE! And He is enough... so much more than our understanding of enough!

And so despite how we may feel at times, we don't remain empty and broken. Not for a single moment if we are in Christ. We are made ALIVE, made right, conquerors, whole. We are even now being transformed into the loveliness of his image day by day; we are made beautiful in his sight. 

So when my heavy eyes look in the mirror, or I bend my neck over the kitchen sink with hands moving mechanically, or I lay at night tired and wide-eyed... I am a daughter of the King, an heir with Christ for eternity. And that makes me more than enough!

Friends, the truth of God's Word is that we are loved and precious to God. In Christ, we find redemption and eternal value and purpose. So when the mind fights against the onslaught of lies regarding our worth in this life, let us remember the armor (Eph. 6) we've been given; strap that belt of truth on a little more snuggly. There's a reason TRUTH comes first in this battle of life, because without it confusion and lies abound. 

Maybe your battle is different than mine today, or maybe you can't even relate. Likely, however, we all need to be reminded that in whatever battle we face today, there's always a truth revealed in scripture that must be meditated upon and applied. 

Because truth makes all the difference.

So smile. Live like you are loved. Love like you are loved.

~Katherine