Recently, I shared some thoughts about how this place has changed over the last eight years. So many of you reached out and commented. You are feeling it too. Some frustrated and want to quit. Others feeling defeated and not enough. And others scared to even put themselves out there. So many of us have felt this ebb and flow of emotions. And more than ever I remind you to really think about your why. Why you are here. Why you share. Why you even create.
I want to share these words from a favorite author and book of mine, A Million Little Ways by Emily P. Freeman:
“Just because you can’t fully live your life the way you so long to live it doesn’t mean you don’t fully believe it’s possible with all your heart. And it doesn’t mean you are forbidden to share what you’re learning unless you’re living it perfectly. Christ is in you and wants to come out through you in a million little ways - through your strength and also your weakness, your abilities and also your lack.
I call it art, someone else calls it rubbish. So what? Call it what you will. God calls us his poem. And the job of the poem is to inspire. To sing. To express the full spectrum of the human experience - both the bright hope that comes with victory and the profound loss that accompanies defeat.”
Remember, friends the world needs more authenticity. More real. What you have to offer matters more than you realize.