“In this moment where I’m obsessing over whose waist line is smaller, You look at me and say ‘You are my treasured possession.’”

“In moments of high anxiety, about to burst into tears, You say: ‘You are more precious to me then diamonds, your worth is more then the most beautiful undiscovered jewels.’”

Resting in God’s presence during our team worship time this morning, He nourished my soul with this truth.

 He spoke out His vision of me.

Whole, beautiful,perfected.

So there is no more shame.

There is no shame in gluttony, desire for marriage, pride, anxiety, cheating my way through 5^th grade math, or lying to people about who I am, what I desire, and what I feel.

There is no shame that as a 10 year old I spent a friend’s birthday party crying because they made fun of my dancing.

There is no shame of dressing to my standard of modesty.

There is no shame in desiring to minister in Cambodia, and refusing the "normal" post college life.

No Shame. So I can fully rejoice that regardless of how I act, who I am is exactly right, my passions are exactly right, and where I am is exactly right.

No Shame:

• In rejection from men I’ve spent years being emotionally attached to
• In telling you, or the world, my past or present messiness
• In running from issues
• In using food as god
• In resting

Shame has no power.

Because I am His, and He is mine

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His perfection has granted me protection from condemnation.

So I am free to confess, cry, mourn, rejoice, and live with you.

Free to laugh in the face of the one who plants shame, leaving vocal cords speechless.

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.”

Amen.