Hey guys,

I am so sorry I just posted the one note and pretty much disappeared instead of posting more. I had every intention on following up with a second note that Sunday, but as most know life doesn’t care what your plans are sometimes and there are those times it disrupts plans. Life happened and I had some personal family matters that needed to be attended, between that and chaos of the holidays I felt exhausted mentally, physically, emotionally……and felt like I hit a wall.

Yup, burnout. As much as I had tried to convince myself that wasn’t it and tried to get myself back on track, I was indeed burnt out. And failed to realize I had been hit with a spiritual attack right before it happened. The first day I repeated old habits and was hard on myself about it, trying to make myself snap out of it. By the end of that day, I had to check myself and show myself love and kindness, the exact thing that I failed to do while life was happening.

Sometimes we can’t show up 100% and that’s ok, it’s ok when others can’t either. I’ve noticed over the past couple years people get mad when others don’t recognize life happening to them or they are burnt out but yet they do the same to others. We’ve all done it, and what I’ve learned from my own experience with it is the more I show myself love and kindness when I just can’t put in 100% or I didn’t follow through with something I intended to but life clotheslined me to the sidelines, the less I get irritated, upset, or disappointed in someone who wasn’t able to show up how I felt like they should.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

– 2 Corinthians 12:9

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 

– 2 Corinthians 12:10

Our failures reveal self-reliance and help us rely on God. We should be grateful for them, instead of our usual habit of regret or shame. Show yourself the same grace you’d want others and the Lord to show you in the moments you feel like you failed.

Thank you to those who viewed the 1st content, I plan to pick up where I left off and the 2nd note to Rooted will be uploaded later today. I hope you all have a blessed morning, don’t forget to show gratitude for what you’re thankful for this morning and ask God, “What is your will for me to do today?”

-Samara