Tea Time Tuesday
Autumn is my favorite season of the year. Who can resist the colors, the gentle breezes and the way the leaves rustle, the slight chill in the air that makes for invigorating hikes.
Look at this gigantic leaf I found! So fun.
This week I have eaten great food, (pear-feta salad), talked of silly books, (listen to the podcast), held and cuddled my precious new granddaughter, and walked miles and miles through fields and meadows. I hope you enjoy the podcast.
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Don’t waste a lot of time self-condemning!
Lately, I have come across so many women who live with the poison of guilt bubbling in their hearts for feeling inadequate in living up to their ideals. “I’m ruining my children.” “I get angry.” “I haven’t done the right things or enough in my home education.” “I don’t think I can make it in ______fill in the blank.
The imposter syndrome, thinking we are not as excellent as we pretend to be, is a danger for so many. It causes us to feel distant from God, assuming we have disappointed Him. Then follows a feeling of being separated from His love and approval.
We all have feelings like this. But I wish I had given them no attention. In spite of the fact that our home had ups and downs, was in a state of mess and then clean and then do it again. We had the antics of toddlers, a variety of differing and demanding personalities, were subject to my husband’s and my weaknesses or lack of training—and still somehow by God’s grace, He made our work of faith and faithfulness enough.
And every day, even when I felt unworthy, God loved me through every minute. He was for us. He was cheering on from heaven.
But God’s love is steadfast—forever strong, real, committed. Nothing can separate us from his love, nothing is stronger than his love.
Join me today on At Home With Sally and I hope you will be encouraged.