After closing one of the longest years of my life, I quickly jumped into the new year, prepping for school and feverishly organizing and writing and all the things I needed to finish. But one word kept returning during my busyness, both in reflecting on the past year and in conversations with friends. I’ve covered the topic of security before, but only on how it relates to identity and inner turmoil. But I realized I couldn’t answer the question, “How…
We were created for a perfect world where people spoke life into each other. It is a process to consistently combat Satan’s lies. It’s hard. It’s painful. I hate that I even had to write this post, I hate that this is an issue in today’s modern world. But know that you are God’s beloved, and you do not deserve to be mistreated. If you have tried your best to fight a battle you weren’t created to fight (even though we are equipped), it’s time to distance yourself from the negativity. External negative forces do nothing to help the internal destruction we already face. I made the mistake of blaming myself for internalizing the insults. The issues of others are not your fault.
Too Many Questions What am I to do when I’m torn from every area of comfort in life? How am I to cope when my previous strategies dissipate? How am I to respond when it seems that God called me away from my security and into the wilderness? Into isolation? Into loneliness? And into “The wilderness”? It seems as if He has brought me here to abandon me. It looks like there is supposed to be a purpose to my…
My Story Of Battling The Demon of Doubt Self-doubt. It’s something I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. Only recently have I been able to name it, identify it, and learn to deal with it. Doubt is the opposite of confidence. It is the opposite of assurance; it is the opposite of faith. People always comment on how confident or self-assured I am. But little do most people know that I wrestle with the demon of…