The endless days of summer aren’t as “endless” as they used to be. I’m sure many of you are ready for the schedule and routine that follows the school year calendar. You may have already taken those first day of school photos and summer is in your rear view mirror.
While I’ve enjoyed time with family and my sweet grands, I’m ready for a shift in seasons and the pacing of a more regular routine.
Did the summer season bring you new insight on how you respond to the world around you? For the moms or grammas with kids at home, summer can be a drain on ideas and resources, leaving you spent and craving naps and real food at all hours! Even without kids around there are so many times we women are hard on ourselves.
- In those moments were you kind to yourself?
- Did the inner critic throw shade your way and make you feel less than enough?
- Were there some expectations of yourself that weren’t realized?
Did you say yes to any of those? Consider how you respond to those inner thoughts. How can you speak life to the parts of you that feel like they should have done more?
This article image is a reminder because I am in Christ, I am also all these things: loved, accepted, redeemed, enough, fed, filled, free and so much more! These are truths I can speak over the shame and shade the inner critic throws at me. I can face tomorrow because of who He is!
Luke 4:18 records these words Jesus spoke, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”
As summer winds down and the rhythm of routine returns, I pray you will recognize the shame, guilt and lies of the inner critic. Then arm yourself with the truth of who God is, and what His word says. His truth is liberty, sight and the good news we need to combat the inner critic’s shame game.