This question has the power to penetrate each and every one of us. It can be a small version of the question when we are thinking of volunteering to coach a little league team, the medium version of the question where we are considering applying for a new position or career, or the supersized version of the question where we are considering our role as a spouse or parent. Often we lose sight of all the small and simple things that make up who we are, and laser focus on the single mountain in front of us that feels too daunting to be able to climb.
Once and a while I hear the vulnerability of another that helps me refocus myself in how I am attacking my own life’s trials.
Video Link: Have you ever asked yourself, Am I Enough?
In Gethsemane, Christ felt everything you have felt, are feeling, and will feel. He has felt your shame, he has felt your guilt, he has felt your loathing for yourself in diapers. He has ALSO felt the love you have for your spouse, the peace that acceptance can bring as you embrace yourself as an ABDL, and the joy of holding your child for the first time.
While we acknowledge that Christ suffered for us, and is the only person that can truly empathize with us because he has “been there” we need to know that he has also experienced our highest highs. He has felt us at our best as well. Do not let the guilt of shame keep you from working to be better and experience the joy and happiness afforded to each and every one of God’s children.
Find the time to take a personal inventory, and find something in your life you can move the needle on. Maybe it has to do with ABDL, and maybe it doesn’t. Find it, be honest with yourself about why it is something in need of improvement, and then get to work. Celebrate the little wins that build the foundation for the life-changing steps. Each day we must continue to sculpt the best versions of ourselves.
I am enough. You are enough.
Jesus Christ thought you were enough to die for.
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