When We Feel We Aren’t Enough

• “I think it’s so interesting how, you know, you can grow up thinking one way about your family life, and then you step into this awareness of what it really is.”

• “He loves us for exactly who we are, because He created us in His image—because He created us!”          

• “In college, I had my Bible. I would read it every day, then I would put it under my pillow and go do whatever the heck I wanted. I believed in God, and I loved him, but I didn’t live like it.”

• “It was some sort of lie that I started to believe when I was younger, that if I do these things, then ‘this’ will make ‘this’ true.”

• “I am trying to honor the fact that forgiveness and trust are not the same thing.”

• “I can forgive [my dad] and be kind to him, but I don’t have to trust him and let him into my safe spaces.”

• “We tend to think that when we come to know Jesus that everything is just ‘BING’ and resolved and wrapped up in this box with a pretty bow on it. And real life is often: God promises and does meet the desires of our hearts. Sometimes it’s now, sometimes it’s  later, sometimes it’s not really in this lifetime.”

• Three resounding themes: God is almighty. He loves us unconditionally. He will never leave us.

• “So many of us want to throw out the pain in our lives; the hardness of our lives; the embarrassing, depleting, revealing in our lives; and think, ‘Okay, now God can come in, and now He can do something with me.’”

• “God planted good in the soil of your pain.”

• “We have to really focus on who we are listening to for our identity.”

• Three ways to stay in the truth that God created me as a masterpiece: Read the Bible every day; pray every day “Who do you see me as?”; hang out with core people you can trust and confide in.

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