Topic: Shame
Today in Iowa, we aren't cool. We are downright cold, with several inches of ice under our feet and snow on top of it!
That's not the kind of cool that endangers us if we are trying to live an authentic life, a life where we are emotionally honest and not ashamed to say how we feel.
Society doesn't encourage authenticity. Western cultures encourage us to be "cool."
Being "cool" in the church isn't the same as being "cool" in our culture. Yet either kind of "cool" is a killer. To authenticity, that is.
Shame resiliency means that I am confident, rather than easily shamed by people who need for me to fit into the belief system or feelings of everyone else.
Posted by Dee Ann Miller
at 12:01 AM CST
