A New Name

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  1. Emma
    Jul 02 - 8:52 pm

    Hi Emma. You’re so right, and yet even at the earliest ages at school the comparisons start – who is the fastest, the most advanced academically, the most popular, the prize winner and so on. And it gets used like a carrot to improve performance, to stretch us all to achieve and progress. And no doubt to feed our insecurities. And the church is often not much better – who is ‘up front’ who are the ‘leaders’, who is the most hospitable, the greenest, who lives sacrificially … need I go on.
    In truth, whatever we may or may not have been will fade as the years pass. What then? The only real antidote to measuring our self-worth against others is to root it in the knowledge of how acceptable, how beloved we are to God and those who love us no matter what. And who knows that in itself may change us to desire deeper and more satisfying riches.

  2. Emma
    Jul 03 - 1:02 pm

    Amen! Just need to keep reminding myself…

  3. fireflyby
    Jul 05 - 8:48 am

    Emma. I love this post. So beautifully written (as always!)
    Your last line has a particular resonance and I’m glad I read this this morning as I suspect it is the reminder I need.
    Lots of love to you

    XXX

  4. Emma
    Jul 06 - 6:28 pm

    thank-you: and to you!

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