enough

we are told constantly that we are not enough and i have been bought into that my whole life. i have spent way too much time making sure i was enough for my friends, family, peers, teachers, and for a world that saw me with at best, critical eyes.
God has hit me with a bus recently and that is the simple truth that i am enough. that i am enough for Him, in every capacity. that when i am stepping over my bible like a dead pet, or when i am seeking Him with everything i am, that i am enough for Him. He is helping me understand that His love for me does not change, that it is as wild and overwhelming now as it will be tomorrow, and that there is nothing i can do to change it or earn it. but just by being, just by existing, i am enough for that wonderful, frightful, and incomprehensible love. our father is the father in the story of the prodigal son, we return stumbling home, unworthy of even a passing glance, but God runs out to meet us, crying out with joy.
i stumble home so often, but just by being there, just by being in the presence of the living God, i am enough for that love and i can accept my father's cry of welcome and joyful proclamations of love.

so if no one has ever told you that you are enough, here you go:
you are enough. you are enough for God, as for the world- forget about it, you are not even on the same scale of enough as the world, and now you are free to see others as enough for your love, and you can run and greet them with the father when they too come stumbling home.