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For some people this scribble will be utterly irrelevant, to others it will look strangely familiar.
In summary: we need to not believe the voices that tell us that we are not good enough.
The problem comes when we have to achieve something, but are utterly unable to do so, despite perseverance, new strategies, outside help, tears, and yes, perhaps even prayer. Not speaking from experience or anything.
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I get it. Wish I didn’t. But I do. Cheers!
Yeah I get it. I even blogged about it the other day. http://adulcia.blogspot.com/2012/05/lying-whispers.html
Hang in there, Dave, you will come through this.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” (Churchill).
You ARE bloody good enough. MUCH more than good enough. We ALL are. Here endeth today’s thought.
Sounds like one of the recurring themes in my sermons. (God loves you, you are loveable) Low self-esteem is a huge problem suffered by many (all?). We need to listen to the external voice saying ‘You are good enough’…
Mine keeps telling me I want to go home. It, like me, isn’t making a lot of sense!
Dave, that’s just genius. Prompted me to write this. Bless you.
Oh dear. I cannot say anything cheering or helpful because if I did, the Pot-Calling-Kettle-Black Police would be after me like a shot. Gin?
Get it. Absolutely!
Spot on. This will click with a lot of people so you’re far from alone. Nothing much more I can say except: Hang in there.
Have you ever drawn a cartoon that tells us something about God rather than us. He is our help! Stop your self-help BS and give us a proper Gospel cartoon.
This is very descriptive and a great cartoon. My little voice particularly enjoys waking me from sleep with some awful gut-wrenching evidence of how I’m not good enough.
Totally totally get this.
hasn’t everyone got one of those?
Sometimes the only thing that can help when you are lost in your own life is the sight of someone else jumping up and down shouting “help! I’m lost!”
Dave, how brave of you to share your struggles with us. Take care of yourself and let others take care of you.
Uh-hu. I know this one well.
Wot Susan said, Dave. Don’t underestimate the amount of help and encouragement your work has given to so many folk. Reading your post this morning inspired me to go off on a long, muddy , sploshy walk with the dog before blogging about the old ‘internal parrot.’ Thanks.
This rings so very horribly true…that little insidious voice…lots of us seem lost too. Perhaps we could all get together and not feel quite so lonely?
I think you’ve been looking inside my head, Dave! Thank you, and thanks to all the other commenters, sometimes it is good to know you’re not alone.
I cannot get rid of that voice. I know that God is more powerful. One day God’s power will wipe out that thought altogether. Until then I do not beat myself up. I acknowledge it’s existence. I give it space to be released and then I have room for healthier thoughts. I do this many many times each day. That is ok.
Dwefew, that was needlessly unkind and utterly uncalled for when Dave is being brave enough to express something very real about human weakness. The Christian life isn’t all sunshine and praise songs for all of us, you know. Expressing how one sometimes feels inadequate is not a denial of God’s strength and goodness, merely an expression of how far removed from us that can sometimes *seem*.
Dave, thank you for expressing this so well, it’s a relief to know even people as talented as yourself sometimes feel like this too.(And maybe this year at Greenbelt I’ll introduce myself instead of shyly sneaking around admiring your work.)
Dave, brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant. As always. (dwefew,
Oh my goodness it’s you! YOU are the little voice! And the
absolutely best thing we can do is ignore you.)
Y’all keep on talking about your ‘little voice’ in your head. I still think it is unhelpful to linger on our own frailty. What we need is love, to guide us from above and set us free. That’s what we need to put our trust and effort in, that’s what we should talk about, encourage one another with psalms and praises, despite our human finite state of being.
What y’all be doing is telling each other ‘how hard’ life is without pointing one another to the one that can truly help. I call this ‘the blind leading the blind’…
Um dwefew, hate to point out the obvious, but ‘psalms’ and ‘praises’ are not synonyms. Presumably you’d have the same reaction to the Psalmist who writes things like ‘save me o Lord for the water has risen up to my neck’??!
Absolutely, please may I encourage you all with Psalm 13, which is a particular favourite. “How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart?”
Oh crikey, I just quoted a bit of the Bible. I should probably go and make a nice cup of tea.
I’m pleased for folk who can get over their inner editor/ terror/ fear of failure by faith, but sadly I’m not one of them.
Good Stuff, folks are knowing their Bible!
Psalms of lament 99% lead into praises of God. I am not saying we cannot lament our situation, but what I am saying is we need to address God in our pain and ask him for help. Rather than pointing out to each other out situation, we need help each other by pointing to the one who can change the situation. Make sense?
This is what I see in Psalm 13 which starts in v.1 with:
Ad ana Adonai… How long *LORD*…
The sad fact is though, that many people don’t really want their situation to change. All they do is constantly share their plight with others and talk how miserable their lives are. It makes them *feel good* because they like all the attention they get.
But this is helping no one. It doesn’t change the situation of the person and all the other people are just get frustrated too by having to listen constantly to their complaining – these people zap all the energy out of other people.
So the question I have is: Why do they not turn to God? Is it maybe because they don’t really *know* God but *just talk a lot about him* in a loud voice?
I know I am going to regret asking this. But I think what I hear here is that people who face a problem, who are brave enough to share it, even in the midst of wildernessy long years of blackness; they’re not Proper Christians. Because it we had turned to God properly, we’d be on our way to having our selves and our issues changed.
Guess that counts me out.
Thanks for all the comments. they have provided a morale-boost this week as I have been ill and unable to do anything much.
dwefew – can you draw us a proper Gospel cartoon so that we can see what you are talking about?
dwefew, I think what you’re trying you’re trying to say to those people is ‘you’re not good enough (at being a Christian). I think what I’m trying to say is, ‘f*** off.’
I’ve little doubt this comment will be removed, but I feel better anyway already. So there we go. Time to walk the black dog.
Maybe what Dwefew needs to do is go off and read “Hinds feet in High Places” Which has a whole lot of Desert and struggle on the way to being what he thinks we should all be now. Maybe we should all go off and read it and be encouraged!
Habakkuk 3:19: “The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.”
Y’all not getting the point and turning around in circles…
Nowhere have I said anything that Christians can’t or shouldn’t suffer. AlI’ve said is to listen to the Lord and find strength in him despite your suffering.
Y’all like the children of Israel in the desert complaining and mourning to each other.
But I say, hear the Lord’s voice: Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning (Psalm 30:5)
Here endeth the lesson!
Love this cartoon… it does indeed seem eerily familiar
