Coming up short. Ever feel like you come up short in your life at every turn? Whether its in your job, your relationships, your appearance, your performances, your activities, your thoughts, your spirituality, your health, your personal goals, your career goals, etc etc…..Do you feel like no matter what you do you always seem to fall short?

Me too.

Am I perfectionist? Is that what creates the results of my feeling like I’m never enough, never do things the way they should be done, never perform the way I want or intend, never reach my goals my aspirations, never achieve anything I’ve wanted to achieve. Is it because I’m some level of a perfectionist?

Is it because something at sometime, or someone at some time, made me feel or told me I wasn’t enough? Is this what perhaps launched a lifetime of demons saying “you are not enough”….”you will never live up to/achieve great things”…you will always come up short.

I wish I knew the answers. I’ll keep searching.

I searched for a graphic to post on Instagram as a visual of what I feel. The image (posted above) led me to a website https://www.reviveourhearts.com/ and more specifically this page: https://www.reviveourhearts.com/true-woman/blog/when-youre-tired-of-coming-up-short/

Hannah Lannigan is the author writing about the subject “When you’re tired of coming up short”. From the wise words from her husband, he gave her a word: Dayenu

Dayenu is Hebrew meaning “It’s enough”. I’ll spare you the biblical thought process in using this word, but the bottom line message is “God is enough”. In other words, a life following in the footsteps of God’s path for us, it gives us peace that no matte how we much we “come up short”, God has us if we have dedicated our lives to him.

Dayenu….a powerful but yet simple message.

I can find peace in knowing that in my ego mindset, I will never be enough in anything I do, in any relationship I have, in any career I have, in any goal/aspiration I set, in any performance or activity I do, etc….HOWEVER, it is ok.

And that’s a fact I need to teach myself. It’s ok to come up short…. Dayenu.

Let the journey of constant reminder or Dayenu keep me from despair, keep my from depression, and keep me alive and well.

Until next time…..
TMO
~Destiny is your choice~