I started 2024 unlike I’ve started any other year.
When the clock struck midnight on 2023 I was wildly aware of one fundamental thing: I had been a slave to the opinions of other people.
My entire life had been built on letting other people control me. Their opinions, their expectations, their thoughts about me… controlled my every action. To my knowledge, no one knew they were able to control me so easily, but they did.
The launch of this weekly blog (thanks for subscribing, by the way) was in some ways an act of revenge. It was me taking my best shot at breaking free from the bondage.
Unfortunately, revenge doesn’t set people free. I launched the blog and saw new subscribers and page views take off. Guess what I ended up with…
More people to control me.
I found myself trapped by your opinion.
What will they think of this post?
Will more people read this one, than the last?
Did anyone unsubscribe today?
How many people opened the email? (10 minutes after I sent it).
I mean the list of insecure thoughts I had could go on, and on, and on.
If I was going to find freedom it was going to only be because I set enough time aside with God to be quiet and listen to what He had to say about me, to me.
So I did… and here’s what I learned.
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