For years I struggled with feeling that I just wasn’t good enough, that who I was wasn’t very likable. I wasn’t content with just being “me” with the personality and temperament God gave me. I have often gone back to these three quotes:
Perfection consists in doing His will, in being what He wills us to be. (St. Therese)
Don’t long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. (St. Francis de Sales)
Most people don’t achieve holiness because they’re fighting who they’re meant to be. (attr. to Thomas Merton)
(emphasis added)
God made you to be you. Don’t rob Him of the treasure that you are. Be fully who He made you to be.
These came on a good day I printed them out for my daughters. Yes! Yes! Yes!
Kathleen