Weakness is Strength
A few posts back I talked about Gaining Less to Gain More and my need to let go of buying things to make me happy. This summer I have tried really hard to battle. Battling with myself and that two letter word. The word that puts a damper on the mentality of "I can have everything that I want when I want it."
Have you even been there? At a place where you want to really change something in your life, but you keep coming up short. Making a change to better yourself with something you really struggle with. Setting off on a journey to make a change and for a little while it goes good. Progress is being made towards a better life, but then the trigger is pulled. Something sets you off and before you know it you are going back down the path that is oh so familiar. At that moment in time, it feels good. You finally have a break, free from the difficulty of trying to stay on that changed path, and going back to a place of familiarity and comfort. For a bit, you are happy and comfortable, but then you realize that struggle is still there hanging over you like a dark cloud. That mountain you have been trying to climb over has not been defeated. You have yet to overcome. The good feeling is replaced with feeling of shame, disappointment, and sadness.
I have been here more times than I can count with different struggles I have faced. It's at this point I have been so gently reminded that I am imperfect. In some cases, it has taken me weeks to come back to this conclusion, but it is the one I always come back to. I am imperfect. I am not always going to get it right on the first try. I am not always going to get it right on the second try. I may not even get it right on the 15th try. The point is to keep trying.
I'm sharing my struggle in hopes that people will realize, it takes time to make a change. It takes perseverance to make a change. It takes determination that quitting is not an option, even after multiple failures.
Sharing your struggles with the world does not make you weak or less, it actually makes you stronger. There is nothing to hide, only honesty and realness, and the realization that "when I am weak, he is strong."
Be proud of your struggle and continue to work humbly hard to come out of that valley you are in.
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2nd Corinthians 12:9-10
With love,
Tori
Have you even been there? At a place where you want to really change something in your life, but you keep coming up short. Making a change to better yourself with something you really struggle with. Setting off on a journey to make a change and for a little while it goes good. Progress is being made towards a better life, but then the trigger is pulled. Something sets you off and before you know it you are going back down the path that is oh so familiar. At that moment in time, it feels good. You finally have a break, free from the difficulty of trying to stay on that changed path, and going back to a place of familiarity and comfort. For a bit, you are happy and comfortable, but then you realize that struggle is still there hanging over you like a dark cloud. That mountain you have been trying to climb over has not been defeated. You have yet to overcome. The good feeling is replaced with feeling of shame, disappointment, and sadness.
I have been here more times than I can count with different struggles I have faced. It's at this point I have been so gently reminded that I am imperfect. In some cases, it has taken me weeks to come back to this conclusion, but it is the one I always come back to. I am imperfect. I am not always going to get it right on the first try. I am not always going to get it right on the second try. I may not even get it right on the 15th try. The point is to keep trying.
I'm sharing my struggle in hopes that people will realize, it takes time to make a change. It takes perseverance to make a change. It takes determination that quitting is not an option, even after multiple failures.
Sharing your struggles with the world does not make you weak or less, it actually makes you stronger. There is nothing to hide, only honesty and realness, and the realization that "when I am weak, he is strong."
Be proud of your struggle and continue to work humbly hard to come out of that valley you are in.
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Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2nd Corinthians 12:9-10
With love,
Tori
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