Have you ever felt like giving up even though you are absolutely giving it all you have, but others can’t see to see it??? Me! Me! I have definitely felt that way once or twice over my 40 years of life. I have always taken others opinions of me to heart. Well in the business world that isn’t quite a good thing, but that is still a weakness of mine. Maybe it’s because I want to please others so badly.

You know, I realized that I can’t take on what others say about me or what they think about me as my truth. I need to take on what God says about me as my truth. I also need to make sure that when I self-talk it is a pure reflection, not a tainted one of how others talk to or about me. “Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed. Our inner person is being renewed day by day.” -2 Corinthians 14:16

I search each morning, day by day, in God’s word who I am by who he has made me to be. I work hard to renew my inner person to meet the outer person I would like others to see, even if they don’t care for me. I realized (which took me many, many years) that I can’t please everybody, but I can please myself, my family, and my God. Therefore, I will continue to renew my inner person to restore what has been damaged or destroyed in order to be the person inside and out I’ve been called to be. Don’t give up!