God likes to kick my emotional bootie…

I know this because sometimes I get these little epiphany’s (Oprah calls them “ah-hah” moments!) in the wee hours of the morning and later in the day come across quotes randomly in the course of my day which I can only describe as a good swipe to my hind end to drill in the whole “ah-hah” from earlier:

“For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.” – Henri Nouwen

“You can deal with an enormous amount of success as well as an enormous amount of failure without losing your identity, because your identity is that you are the beloved. Long before your father and mother, your brothers and sisters, your teachers, your church, or any people touched you in a loving as well as in a wounding way-long before you were rejected by some person or praised by somebody else-that voice has been there always. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” That love is there before you were born and will be there after you die.” – Henri Nouwen