I'm Not the Only One

I'm amazed that when you share your deepest insecurities and struggles, someone always says, "You, too? You mean I'm not the only one?"

This morning, I share my thoughts on being "seated in Christ" with a crowd of folks. I'm confessing my current struggles with the 3 A's: Appearance, Affluence, and Achievement. I wonder if I sound crazy or stupid or just irrelevant. 

Did anyone else feel the way I felt about their lives? Was anyone else battling for a seat at the table?

One by one, they come. Students approach, often with tears in their eyes, to confess how the felt the same way I had described. 

Come into the light, my friends. When you share the deepest, most hidden thing, one by one, others will come to say--with profound relief and gratitude--"I'm not the only one!"