Tara - thanks for the compliment and comment. Please remember I’m no kind of therapist or advanced degreed mental health professional, but have only learned through my personal experience with mental health professionals. God bless.

Jennifer - I’m with you. For some of us, it’s really painful coming to the realization that we are not as perfect as we once thought we were.

A while back I saw a sign on a church that said “Don’t make your mistakes your value,” but I initially misread it to say “Don’t make your mistakes your values,” which I thought was actually a more common problem: people don’t want to shine light on the mistakes they’ve made and just gloss over it by convincing themselves that they didn’t do anything wrong in the first place (that used to be a life philosophy for me).

Anyway, great thoughts. I’ll have to remember to link to this.

Taking up my oil painting again, after years of abandoning it–when I was practicing–not a problem–fun, everything was okay. Then I decided to paint a picture to give as a gift–and all of a sudden–I couldn’t paint. My priest also asked me to do a painting for him–of his beloved dog–and now I’m totally froze–unable to even open the paints.

Upon close examination–I think I’ve come to the root of the problem–but, now the hard part–overcoming the subconscious enslavement of my past. So this is, “God’s way of calling me to overcome old weaknesses and develop new virtues.” Thanks shelray