Unashamed Radiance
Prohibitive Conscience People-Pleaser Over-Thinker Have you ever described yourself to others in any of these ways? What about to yourself? What is it that you feel that you diagnose that way? I know how my list would begin: Anxious Guilty Lonely Failing Ashamed Uncertain Floundering Oh, how frequently I have felt these ways. I have wept longingly over the following verse: "Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed." Psalm 34:5 I've been pestering myself, chasing the emotions around my brain in circles until my eyes burn with unshed tears, my head aches for striving, and all I want to do is crawl into a deep dark hole and disappear completely. Why do I feel this way? Way is there this insatiable ache in the depths of my soul, this pit in my stomach, and the knot in my throat? "Why can't I be radiant and unashamed?" Like a sick mantra, I mentally chastise myself for lacking in radiance and determine resolutely t