Am I enough?

 

I don’t know about you, but I ask myself this question often.  It happens in almost every aspect of my life: from caring for my grandkids, to grocery shopping, to committee work, to sitting on a Board, to sitting in worship.

 The next step is interrogating myself: Enough for what?  What variety of enough?  Smart enough?  Fast enough?  Loving enough?  Caring enough?  And who gets to say if I’m enough?   And then, perhaps the biggest of them all – Why am I questioning if I am enough?  That too is layered.  Does everyone ask this of themselves?  Does it come from my childhood?  From a lack of affirmation?  Does it come from striving to be authentic in the world?  Finally, there comes an answer.

 I am enough. I acknowledge that each and every one of God’s children, with all of our variations – all that makes us different and yes, all the things that make us the same – each and every one of us, is enough.  Each and every one of us, no matter what we may seem outwardly, is the same inwardly, where Spirit resides.    When I hold my belief, Friends belief, that we each have that of God within I understand it to be the great equalizer.  It is the starting point in coming to know another human being, no matter our differences, no matter what that person has done.  When the first thing I see when I meet another is the Light that they carry within I know that we are the same and I know that no matter our differences, we are each enough.