"It is tempting to carve out our identity as victims and recruit a team of supporters to affirm our status. But if we are honest with ourselves we would see the ongoing injustice and oppression doesn't lie within the event, but in the belief that we are powerless to move on." Mike Foster

Gracenomics is still speaking my language and helping me stay grounded, which is REALLY needed these days. I feel a little in danger of losing myself and am so thankful for Grace. Glad to have it glad to give it....it's like a soft blanket, I want to wrap myself up in. It is often tempting to stop fighting for what *is* right and just let whatever *feels* right prevail. It all goes back to my first post about learning how to edit our stories to what is appropriate. I think our culture is teaching us to be selfish but cleverly disguising it as "keeping it real" . Maybe it's time to stop keeping it real and start keeping it God honoring. Whatever happened to holiness... for real? How often have you heard someone say lately, "Im just trying to be Holy or Righteous?" no we hear people say,"I'm just trying to be honest, authentic, real, vulnerable." They are not actually the same thing.

Let me tell you if I stopped perusing holiness and started just just keeping it real, I would be creating little disasters everywhere I went. Because I am not Jesus, I am fully human, fully flawed, I have selfish desires, I have unfair expectations, I have inappropriate (and very much appropriate) anger, I have consuming self pity. It's all in there and I am very much capable of letting those feeling make a mess of my life and infecting everyone around me.

But I am fighting, I am fighting for something greater for my family, for my friends, for me. I'm fighting for holiness and sometimes it completely wipes me out. But I will not become a victim. I am not powerless. I am blessed beyond measure. I think it is actually possible that I am one of the luckiest girls in the world, and on a good day I know it.