Own Your Everyday: Overcome the Pressure to Prove and Show Up for What You're Made to Do

We long for clarity, but perhaps true purpose requires closeness with God. When I get impatient, however, I trade closeness for clarity, just when He’s daring me to press in and trust there’s a bigger plan.

You don’t scare me. I’m thankful for you because you will be a lesson that will shape me into who I’ll become.

We waste a lot of time building an image we want the world to see instead of taking responsibility for breaking through the limits we create in our own heads and becoming who we were made to be

To be truly free of an unhealthy mind-set and harmful behaviors, you have to look at fitness and health as part of your self-care, not part of your self-worth—and there is no shame in reaching out and asking for assistance to get there. Choose wisely. Open up and ask for help. You were not made to be a one-woman show.

There’s wisdom in planning.

Friend, try stuff before it makes sense, because it doesn’t need to all make sense in order for God to use it. He’s got this. He’s got you.

giving in to comparison is kind of like running on a treadmill. It’s exhausting but doesn’t really take you anywhere.

Pride warps our view of God and is sneaky about making us into our own god. We

Insecurity locks the doors. Identity—knowing who God is in you and living as if you are who He says you are—opens them.

Purpose lies in how we show up in our spheres of influence and how people are loved by us. No platform is required for that.

Instead of trying to show off, each of us can choose to show up and give what we have.