29 Mar I am enough from hannah mayo
What will I say...
What will I say...
I’m just like you, I’ve had defining moments in my life; my brother dying when I was 6, or my parents divorce when I was 15, or getting divorced myself when I was 30. There were also positive experiences that helped define who I am,...
Just the thought of writing a post on “I Am Enough” had me feeling like I wasn’t enough, funny how my inner critic wanted to jump right in and sabatoge me. The fact that I am here and still writing should send a message loud...
“Heart Mandala” (2011), by Tracy Hart. Collage on paper. I never feel ready for important things: meeting a writing deadline, teaching a workshop, any kind of ending or beginning that needs acknowledgement. A sense of readiness usually arrives a few moments after I am forced to...
I'm nobody - nobody famous, that is - but I am somebody. I breathe. I think. I move. I talk. I love. I am loved. I serve. I give. I take. I have wants, wishes and dream. I have opinions. I am enough. Most days I...
Paradoxically, what immediately surfaces for me when i consider enoughness is the consistent and persistent feedback I have received about being too much. Not being enough has its roots for me in being told I am too much. I have been told repeatedly that I am too...
Sometimes being enough means simply standing still. At the beginning of 2009, I took my first writing class. As a beginning writer – and beginning writing student - I had the usual first day nerves, worried my fellow classmates would all be better than me and...
Five years ago I was on the fast-track. Good job. Nice paycheck. Swanky office. Smartphone full of beeps and buzzes letting me know that people neededme, asap. I was miserable. I would drive to work and wonder why this all wasn’t more fulfilling. I was ambitious and wasn’t...
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 (NIV)I am enough...
-Rhythm Although I chose my one little word for 2011 before the turn of the new year, I still have yet to share it here. I have had all kinds of ideas, thoughts, stories on how I would be weaving this rhythm I so long for into...