lemonlimekids

thank you to everyone who sent kind emails, tweets and commented in person about my last post. it made my heart grateful and reminded me that faith is a communal activity.

i'm learning more about my faith everyday, and today i'm mindful that how i feel about my job is often a measurement for how i feel about my faith. i equate a large part of my identity and self-worth to how successful i feel in my job.

so in a season of feeling less than fully satisfied in my job, i feel less than satisfied in my faith.

i know that my job is not the whole sum of who i am. i am creative, and innovative and a team leader, and i like fashion and cooking, and decorating my house, and real estate, and telling jokes. but i forget that not all of that can be expressed in my job, it's ridiculous really, but i still expect it. my job must be all and everything to me.

and when a job becomes a ministry it only makes faith more confusing, right? we work hard, and with excellence and sacrifice to serve and love others - often forgetting to serve and love ourselves.

what if we really did acknowledge that our job isn't the full sum of who we are - and that ministry is a calling, and at the same time just a job in which we use our skills to get a paycheck.

my job ≠ the fullness of me

so today i'm committing to finding my faith in things that are lovely and beautiful and exist outside of my job. things like shopping at anthropologie, and trying new recipes, and listening to my husband's laugh, and enjoying the perfect cup of coffee, and babysitting my niece, and reading the absolute perfect book on a summer day, and volunteering my leadership skills at my church. because i'm determined to become fully me.