Prayer of belonging from 1 John 3
Dear Lord, How great is the love you have lavished on me that I should be called your daughter! (blog here ) The world does not see me like your daughter. The world says I'm a middle-aged wife and mom with a quasi-successful career as a teacher, with unlikely success as a writer. I live in the suburbs, I never have enough money, I work too much, I socialize too little, I say the wrong things to my children, I ignore too many needs around me. But that is not who you say I am. I have inherited your kingdom. I'm a princess who never had to kiss a frog or wake from a coma or wear a glass slipper. I'm deserving of your grace and love because you choose to make me deserving. My unreservedness serves only to make me grateful and humble, if I choose. Or I can choose shame, materialism, perfectionism, workaholism, self-fulfillment, popularity, anxiety, fatigue, and pursuit of health and beauty. How foolish I am to think those things will make me fill the hole that...