I have written a little about healthy introspection, seeing ourselves as we really both the good and the bad. The point of this is to help us move forwards. We can identify places where we need to grow, or areas we have a weakness we need to be careful of as well as indetifying gifts we have to offer and skills we have to use.
This isn’t easy. I have emphasised this is also a time to get to know God and find out what he says about you. When you start acknowledging your bad points, sometimes that can lead to viewing yourself badly or it can lead to burying your head in the sand and ignoring it.
God doesn’t want either of those. God wants you to keep moving forward, to keep growing. God loves all of you and will support you on your journey. And God doesn’t want you to do it alone. He wants to uncover things when you are in a place to deal with then and in circumstances where you know you are loved.
It takes courage to keep going, to love yourself even as you take ownerships of the areas you still need to grow, to keep going back to a place of pain in order to work through for healing, to wake up each day and turn your eyes forward not back and decide to make a change. It also takes courage to work through things with patience and not push through to get to the other side as quickly as possible.
To whoever needs to hear it, here is a verse from psalm 27:
Wait for the Lord, Be strong, take heart and wait for the Lord
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