Sally Hanan's Blog, page 7

So many women make their lives about self-improvement, posting about how they should be — they should be thinner, kinder, better mothers, better wives, better housekeepers, better earners.

Listen to me.

Right now, in this moment, you’re enough.

You really are. Even if you’re fat or mean or selfish or lazy or have a miserable, low-end job, you’re still enough. You are a woman of value. You are here because your presence in this world matters.

And perhaps you can’t see why you matter all too clearly right now, but a year from now, ten years from now, your understanding will have grown. And you won’t let your current perceptions of value cloud that ever again.

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Behind the Face

I think one of our biggest mistakes with our Christianity is that we’ve put a face on it and then tried to live up to the face when it was always meant to be a heart thing.

Normal

We’re each just as real and great and dumb and stupid as everyone else at times. Our weight, noses, social awkwardness, dress sense, and topical stupidity is just as bad as millions of other people’s. And that’s okay.

Welcome to normal. It might feel like you’re falling further if you accept this, but really you’re leveling up.

Acceptance

People who talk about inclusion and championing rights–they talk a lot about your acceptance of them, but seem tone deaf or mute when it comes to their acceptance of you. — Overheard

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I’m offended that you’re (full in the blank)

Upset with me

Correcting me

Avoiding me

Unfriending me

Publicly correcting me

Laughing at me

Therefore every time I see you, hear mention of your name, or see a post by you, I will shake my head and sigh because I just don’t like you all that much anymore.

Basically I’m turning off the connection/friendship/relationship so you can’t trigger my feelings of not being good enough so I don’t have to deal with them.

#facethetruth #anddealwithit

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God is beyond this world yet in us. He is outside time yet in this moment. He has seen our past yet applauds our present and welcomes us into our futures. His presence shines through our presence while in his presence. We come from him and are alive in him and return to him. Every breath we take is because of his original breath of life into us, and even in death we breath again.

Selah

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Some people only seem to come alive when they’re complaining.

Don’t make that your rocket power for living or you’ll never make it to the moon.

 

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Had such a, em, beautiful moment this morning that might never be erased from my mind….

My dog was pawing at the TV stand, sticking his nose under and trying to grab something with his teeth, so me, being the ever-loving doggie mom I am, stuck my hand in under there to pull his toy out for him…

only to feel something small and prickly bite my finger…

after which I pulled my hand out very quickly and in doing so, pulled out an outdoor cockroach as well…

after which I frantically Googled cockroach bites…

and discovered they happily eat human flesh…

but only if they’re starving.

Good to know! But now I’m imaging all sorts of gross things flying thorough my bloodstream, even though if they do bite you, the damage stays close to the bite.

I also took the now somewhat legless cockroach from the dog and threw it over into the neighbor’s yard. I’m a good neighbor like that.

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We’ve misrepresented the gospel for too long by diminishing it to sin vs. no sin. We’ve told people they get the grand prize of exchanging the sin they love for holiness, something not all that enticing to hearers when it doesn’t promise to feed their soul in the ways they’re used to.

What if we told them the whole story, the real grand prize – that they get the fathering of God, the mothering of the Holy Spirit, and the brother-ing /friendship of Jesus?

Not only that, they get to be one with him.

Not only that, they get to think his thoughts and take on his nature of love and wholeness?

That’s what Jesus said he came for (John 17). That’s what we should highlight – we get to be one with all the beauty of love.

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I’m excited about seeing how much culture is changing re the perception of what women “should” be — what they should wear, how they should speak, how confident they should be in company, how intelligent they should reveal they are in conversation, what jobs they should take, what roles they should be limited to…

Emotions – seriously, people are far worse off when they stuff them.

We’re actually the strong ones.

I think that the more women are proud of who they are, what they are, how they are, why they are, the faster this will shift culture for the better.

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Some people have really crappy things happen to them, People betray them or let them down, money is tight, the struggle can be constant.

But what I’ve found with people who only focus on those things is: if they look back over their lives for happy moments, they will invariably find some.

Which makes me think that if they were to look at their current state of life and look for the happy moments, they would find some too.

While I can’t disagree that life can be hard, sometimes very hard, I’d balance that out with the truth that life can be sweet sometimes, and the trick is to hold onto those moments and keep replaying them in your mind rather than the bad things. That’s what will get you through to your next, better phase in life.

Search for the gold in the moments, gold in people, gold in your job, gold in your circumstances.

Everything shines when the sunlight catches it just so.

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Being a rebel can be a great thing — everything you do is different and unique — but in your insistence on doing the opposite of the norm, you can end up missing out on every bit of beauty in it.

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