Ever feel inadequate in your career, relationships, parenting, life? I’ll admit I feel inadequate on a near-daily basis. This morning I was looking back through my journaling and found this entry from early on in writing my second book, Shrapnel. I felt so deeply inadequate to tell the stories of the beautiful characters that I had come to love.
My journaling went something like this, “God, I feel inadequate for this thing you put in front of me. Give me depth to move the reader. And that’s the point, isn’t it? What other reason would I write? To touch someone. To reach into their depths and prick a spot in them and open something closed off within. So move in me. I give you my hands to move across the keys as you will. Use me. Write through me. There is simply no other way.”
Sometimes we have to get out of our own way, let God flow through us. That’s when we become enough.
What are you feeling inadequate in? Let me remind you, friend YOU are enough. You can do what you need to do. You have in you all that you need. Now go do you!
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