In Others’ Words: Who Do You Think You Are?

I first read this quote by C.S. Lewis on my writer-friend, Susan Tuttle’s, blog: Steps Into the Abundant Life. I tucked it away in my quote file thinking I’d highlight it one day … and today’s the day.

I’ve wanted to be a lot of different things in my life.

Older — as in “Oh, I can’t wait to be 10 … or 16 … or 21.”
As good as — as in “Please let me compare myself with (fill in the blank) and be satisfied.”
Content — as in “What I have, what I am is enough.”

And then, somehow, someway, I realized God, who created me (imagine that!) had something to say about who I was … and who I was to become. I was, as C.S. Lewis said, ” … born in God’s thought, and then made by God …” How life-giving is that truth? I embraced that truth. I stopped and listened. I changed my plans, my aspirations …

and yes, I got older.

And I asked him to help me not to strive so much. To stop the comparison game.

And I found contentment in who I was because he had made me with a purpose in mind.

Grand, indeed.

In Your Words: What helped you embrace God’s purpose, his touch, in your life? How do you remind yourself that you were ” … born in God’s thought, and then made by God …”?

Who do you think you are? #lifequotes
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