We love those bootstraps, don’t we? Where does that expression come from anyway? Have you ever actually tried to pick yourself up by your shoelaces? It doesn’t work. At all. Why do we do that?
Growing in the Gospel
Tag: shame
I think sometimes we can believe that our being ashamed of how inadequate we are is the same as humility. It’s not. Shame makes us feel unfix-able. Shame makes us feel not good enough, yet expecting ourselves to be good enough. How can we measure up to those kind of expectations? We can’t.
What’s been shaken up in your life? What has you off balance? To what degree? Are you still walking straight? Little wobbly? Clinging to the side rails? Hanging on for dear life? Completely disoriented without knowing which way is up?
Welcome back to Roots & Light! I am so pleased you’ve decided to join us for this series on Fear. This is post three of…
When I speak of being the master of our fear, I do not mean that we stifle the fear, pushing it down and pretending it’s not there. That’s unhealthy. I mean that we are the authority over it. We run it. It doesn’t run us. The fear is there, whether we like it or not. It’s what we do with it that makes the difference.