A Prayer for When you Feel Like You’re Not Enough
by Rev. Dr. Amy Chilton on 04/14/23
Friends, as I am returning today from meeting with the MMBB Strategic Pastoral Excellence cohort, I leave you these words of encouragement. Dear God, What is this strange unease? It feels like restlessness, but it’s more than that. It’s the sense that some unnamed standard is convincing me that I will never be enough. Smart enough. Pretty enough. Healthy enough. Young enough. Brave enough. Grateful enough. I have come to the end of myself. I am not enough. There are cracks in everything, but You fill them with love. Fill me with Your divine presence that is entirely unimpressed by my attempts at perfection. God, sing over me the truth of how You see me. You made me in love, for love, and – somehow – it is enough. Blessed are we who see that intrinsic worth comes, not through our talents, but from You. Thank You for saving me from my own dreams of perfection. Amen* *From Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie’s Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection, p. 164.
