“I was invited to Miss Alice Henderson’s…[in her] there was an effortless beauty…a harmony that seemed to come from having one’s roots down in the place where the roots were meant to be.”
I want my roots down in the place where roots were meant to be. I want to be known as a stable, rooted person…one who is not given to bending with the changing wind, but who is firmly planted and confident and content in who I am. When I am able to accept myself as a person loved by God, it changes how I view and accept others.
“There was something else I had noticed too: an initial acceptance of herself as she was and [also] of other people with their [shortcomings]. And so she did as little scolding or criticizing of others for their foolish behavior or their sins as anyone I had ever known. It was not that she was willing to compromise with wrongdoing…just that she was a long step ahead of wasting emotional energy on fretting. And she never put pressure on the rest of us to accept her opinions. The secret of her calm seemed to be that she was not trying to prove anything. She was—that was all. And her stance toward life seemed to say: God is—and that is enough.”
That is how I want to be – able to accept others with their shortcoming because I realize my own failures and yet I also know that I still accepted and loved by the King of the Universe. I want to have a simplicity of life to be able to say:
God is—and that is enough.
Are you content in who you are in Christ? Or are you still struggling to accept you?
It will be hard to accept others until you are able to accept yourself.
Remember these words from a Matthew West song – that when regret and defeat try to remind you of what hold they have on you – tell them…
“Hello, my name is… Child of the One True King.
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, I have been set free.”
When we hold onto this truth, we are set free from so much weight of trying to impress and keep up appearances. We just relax in Him. And that let’s others relax when they are with us.
Let’s put our roots down where they were meant to be – in the foundation of Christ, knowing that we are Adopted Children of the One True King of the Universe!
(Quotes take from the book “Christy” by Catherine Marshall)