Do you Stress to Impress?

I can’t begin to explain this amazing transformational journey I’ve been on the last 7 years. So many scales skewing my vision of myself and the world are slowly falling away. Who knew there were so many layers! The most recent realization came last night in a seminar which uncovered how we humans seek to impress, validate our existence, and prove our worth. It’s an exhausting, never-ending cycle like a dog chasing its tail. In other words, we stress to impress!

Just look at the things you do and get really honest with yourself by asking “why am I doing this? Why do I want this?” Do you see the need to look good, be right, and impress? If not, that might be a blind spot and a place for you to start looking deeper.

This morning in an unrelated reading, I read the same message and another revelation hit me. I don’t need to do the things to impress man or prove my worth because my existence is already justified by the Father who created me. Now I know this in my head, but really knowing it in my heart is next-level transformation!

Just the fact that “I am” is a sign of God’s enduring love.” And a new layer of scales has fallen off that had built up due to the hurt and abandonment I’ve endured the past 25 years. It’s so freeing really believing deep down that I don’t need to stress to impress man because my God loves me and has a perfect plan for my life! Instead, I have the opportunity and choice to glorify God! What a shift to come full circle back to! I had lost that focus over the last few decades just trying to survive the storm. But what a powerful, freeing place to stand in life!