Just to share with you all an interesting thought that "occurred" to me yesterday. To preface this, I need to mention that my word for 2020 was "Freedom."

Yesterday morning, I was considering how I was failing in some roles in my life and what my loved ones must think of me. Which is my usual concern. Suddenly I realized that freedom for me, and I experienced it for a precious moment, is to stop worrying about what others think of me. To stop trying to be the person I think I am supposed to be and accept the person I am, while seeking out the person God is calling me to be.

That musing stuck with me through the day. Oh, and I should mention that I am reading a called, To Be Told by Dan B. Allender, PhD, which is about discovering "the role God is giving you in His story!" Which also played into all this.

Later, as my son and I were watching Avengers - End Game, this quote hit me like a ton of bricks! "Everyone fails at who they're supposed to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are." Followed a bit later by Thor saying, "Time for me to be who I am rather than whom I'm supposed to be."

I'm thinking that maybe it is time for ME to find out and live out Whom God has created me to be rather than worrying about how much better everyone else is and feeling such a failure for not being them.

Anyway, I just love how God seems to pull things together in our lives like that. Now, if I can just get hold of that freedom and begin to live it...