Is it Breaking you or Making you?
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Everyone you know is facing some sort of challenge — including you and me. Is the challenge breaking you or making you? The challenge is breaking us when we spend more time blaming. The challenge is making us when we ask, “What am I learning?” The challenge is breaking us when we choose shame. The challenge is making us when we accept grace. The challenge is breaking us when we think it will always be this way. The challenge is making us when we remember everything is for a season. As my friend Woody Faulk says, “There’s a difference between being shaped and being impacted.” I have no doubt your current challenge is impacting you but be aware of how it is shaping you. Fight for self-awareness. It’s what we need the most and what we have the least, at least in challenging seasons. It’s why I believe in having a counselor and wise mentors around me. They help me see the ways that what is impacting me is shaping me. They’re on the other side of me. They see it. It’s why challenging seasons can be a true gift. As the old adage says, “It’s not what happens to us. It’s what we do with what happens to us that matters most.” This week ask the question, “Is this breaking me or making me?” And don’t be so hard on yourself. Give yourself some grace but also some truth. The combination will give you self-awareness, and that goes a long way in making and shaping you — to be the you that you want to be. |
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PS. This is especially true when you’re in a season trying to figure out what to do next. It’s one of the reasons I wrote What to do Next: |
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