"Hanging on"

It is so true what you say, Linda, about the Lord showing me how to stop focusing on performance. And He has started doing it already, I'm so excited! I've signed up for your Spiritual Growth and Parenting Young children Reading Guides and am so thoroughly enjoying them. I have been creating more margin, and you have confirmed what I've been 'trying' to do all year.

I was involved with a volunteer organisation to help women breastfeed but found it to be a bit burdensome but I kept on at it, just couldn't seem to 'let go' although I actually wasn't enjoying it anymore because it was an interruption to our family. Finally, while reading your article, God showed me that I've been 'hanging on' because it's been part of an image for me. It was another 'title' although I didn't want to actually do the 'work'. I resigned last week, and even then, the email sat in my drafts folder for a week before!

I feel He is stripping all my outer images away, slowly, one by one until there will only be me left, just as he made me, ready to receive His image.