Tonight I completed Beth Moore's latest book, So Long Insecurity, while waiting at Starbuck's to see if any of our usual Wednesday night coffee crew would venture out. She analyzed for us the cultural climate and the pressure women face because of it. She talked about where insecurity originates from and the crazy and self-defeating ways it is manifested in our lives. She seemed to be having a personal catharsis as she wrote each chapter, and held nothing back. I admire Beth's courage to be whole-heartedly who she is.
She offered good insight on braving the messages and pressures today's culture puts on us as women. She said that when we feel threatened by another woman, we need to personalize her and to drop "the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival." Galatians 5:21, the Message. She helped me to identify triggers which send me into a spiral of insecurity, and coached on how to act the way a secure person would until the feelings follow. She urged to allow God to secure our identity, not the man we are trying to please, and to remember that we have been clothed with strength and dignity, as Christ's own.
One of my favorite quotes was, "Human nature dictates that most often we will be as insecure as we are self-absorbed" (Moore 309). Giving my life away, and turning my gaze upward and outward will deliver me from an inward funk.
I am glad for courageous, real-life women like Beth Moore, with a passion " that longs to see girls from elementary school to assisted living thrive in their God-given right to security in a culture that is brutal on our gender."
1 comment:
So lovely to have lunch with you yesterday.
I've continued to think about our success/failure conversation, and I've come to this: If we are being obedient, it's enough, regardless of "results". It is that easy and liberating.
This looks like a book I need to pick up. I have to confess the pressures women face make me relieved to have sons.
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