You. Are. Enough.

Some times life gets so busy and we get caught up in the rush of getting as many things done as possible...and we forget moments like these: As a child I used to relish in getting lost in nature, wandering off on my own, taking in the smells that carried through the orchards behind my house, taking in Gods final masterpiece of the day, admiring the grandeur and glory of billions of billions of twinkling lights dancing across the night sky, noticing the shapes and the movements of the clouds, all the while taking a moment to contemplate life, commune with my Creator, wrestle through heartaches, or work through things that were saying me down, dreaming up dreams, giving those dreams to the universe. As I'm sitting here looking over this lake at the last rays of sunlight, I realize that for the past 10 years of my life I've been so caught up with the hustle and bustle of making it, living it, doing it, surviving it, that I forgot to take moments like these to really feed myself...to remind myself that all of the things that lay deep inside are what make me enough—my story, my life, my successes, my failures. I. AM. ENOUGH. Society deems being enough as constantly going, doing, hustling, striving, perfecting oneself—changing as a chameleon would, in other words, to fit in with what our environment says is acceptable. No matter how many promotions we get, no matter how many pounds we lose, how good of a mom people say we are, how many cars, boats, the size of house we have, will never feel enough. We will never feel a true sense of belonging to things outside of us. Belonging comes from accepting, loving, and sharing with the world the authentic person that within us at this very moment and self-loving that person as we would love our companion, our child, our neighbor, our friend, our Creator.