You Are Not Enough

Yep.  You read that right.  You are not enough.  All the slick marketing companies are right about that (but wrong about everything else).  You're not good enough.

You will never be the smartest, funniest, kindest... or if by some miracle you are the one in six billion who is the best at something you do, it won't last.  Tomorrow, or next week, or next year, someone else will be smarter, funnier, kinder...

Meanwhile, you've got this great big gaping hole inside you and you can't fix it. 

So.

What next?

Are you going to spend your life letting that hole consume you from the inside out?  Are you going to spend your life eaten up by all the things that you can't do?  By all the things you're not good at?  Because let me tell you, there are a lot of things you're not good at and a looooot of people who are "better" than you.  It hardly seems like a good plan, does it?

So why do you let all the ridiculous expectations and false guilt pile up on top of you until you can't breathe?

I'm talking to myself as much as to anyone else.

Here's a better plan.  Go to the Place that you can get your brokenness fixed.  Go to the One who can fill up that hole with something that won't dissolve into an even bigger nothingness.

And then live a life that actually expresses your incredible and undying gratitude that even though you are not enough, Someone loves you enough to die so that you can live.

Go on, try it.