This isn't about being skinny

I tell my wife she looks skinny.

She tells me to shut up.

I say, "Here, let me take a picture." She's standing in the kitchen.

I take the picture with my phone. She looks at it and goes, "You did that with an app. You have a skinny app."

I know I have her now.

I say, "Here, take my picture and see if it looks like me."

She takes my picture. It looks like me.

I say, "So see, it's true, that's what you look like."

What do you refuse to believe about yourself?

Just because you've repeated something to yourself for years (good or bad) doesn't make it true.

Brutal reality has two sides. We usually major on facing one or the other.

Face both.

One side is that you ain't all that.

The other side is that inside you is the drive to create, contribute, connect, and leave a mark. But in a way that looks just like you.

It's hard to embrace your calling if you refuse to accept your gifting.

Comments

[June]

EXACTLY!

[Heather Day Gilbert]

Great post! So true that we have to know the truth about ourselves--good and bad, and work with what we're given!

[Sarah]

Love this line - It's hard to embrace your calling if you refuse to accept your gifting.

Thank you for that!

[Melody]

Wow. Thank you. That is a line I can memorize and recall at the time most needed.

[Brooke]

That last line is a keeper - thank you!