Do you ever have those days where you feel utterly worthless? Maybe an encounter with a child went horribly wrong, ending in slammed doors and a screaming fit. Maybe you tried to mend a rift with a friend and it backfired, or a challenging work project crashed and burned, causing embarrassment and disappointment for you or your team. Whatever the cause, every inch of you feels inadequate, useless, unimportant, and it’s a feeling no pep talk or dose of fresh air can fix. I used to have low self-esteem. I didn’t feel good enough, didn’t feel anyone liked me, and I kept the world at arm’s length because I was afraid if people got too close they’d see me for the inadequate, boring, imperfect person I really was. It took me a long time to get over my self-esteem troubles (learning to like my own company and nix people-pleasing played a huge role, but that’s a whole other blog topic, ha!). Today, I’m happy to say I genuinely like myself, and that low self-esteem seems to have disappeared. Yet every once in a while, when something bad happens, a flicker of worthlessness rears its head. Doubts loom. Here’s what helps: Remembering that for everything I’m not, God is. My devotional for this week on pushing insecurity aside to be all God needs. Thanks for watching! And I hope you'll also connect with me on social media and on my blog, which has a deeper reflection on this.
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