You are Enough

At the weekend the Mission and Ministry department of St Alban’s Diocese held a day Conference for Church leaders in the area. One of the talks was entitled “Who do you think you are – let’s start with enough”. The speaker started by a taking poll of the delegates, asking people to put up their hands if they did not consider themselves to be “enough”. The vast vast majority of the room put their hands up.

The speaker went on to talk about the danger of not putting boundaries in place – of being unwilling to say no to people. She talked about the accepted (and rising) number of people who were “burnt out” pointing out that 30 years ago the term did not even exist. She ended by posing a question “What would it look like if you did feel like you were enough?” I found that a fascinating question which made me think about where our sense of worth comes from, what importance we put on rest and relaxation and what impact we allow the value God places on us to have in our lives.

And it made me think of Gerard Kelly's poem “God sees diamonds”; an extract of that poem:

We believe in the Grace

Of the gifts God gives

His breath in everything that lives

Greater gifts to be discovered

Deep in you

Disguised

Dust covered

You see coal

God sees diamonds

And so this Passiontide as we start to think of that life that God won for us through his sacrifice, may we also start to think of ourselves as enough – God’s precious children who he was willing to die for.