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January 25 - January 27, 2022
It taught me to choose my friends wisely, to be intentional about the relationships I invest in, to guard
my heart, and to go all in. It taught me to love the moment but to be aware that anything can change. It taught me to know who I am no matter what. No matter when. No matter how, and no matter who I’m around.
It’s lonely when you are drowning in acquaintances but starving for actual connections.
I am fully human, and I have felt a wide range of emotions, but loneliness is quite possibly my least favorite of them all.
When people feel valued and worthy and heard, they experience extreme
joy.
At the very core of me is just a simple girl who desires to be loved and to love others, and who sometimes desires to eat queso and Mexican food.
You’ll stop seeing yourself as someone who was created with a purpose, and you’ll start seeing nothing but a mess.
Your weight changes. Your face ages. But your heart doesn’t.
If talking bad about yourself can become a habit, then so can speaking life.
Insecurity keeps us shackled to comfort, and
comfort keeps us forever shackled to conformity, and conformity keeps us forever shackled to the things of this world.
Embrace yourself and embrace your unique flavor. Stop assuming everyone doesn’t like you and start assuming they do.
The right people will accept you because you are yourself, not in
spite of it.
We don’t want to know
who someone is, we want to know someone deeply and personally, and we want them to know us in return.
God has a funny way of taking our very deepest cuts and allowing us to use them to help others heal.
