Cascade Church Portland

One of the most destructive aspects of shame is it's baked-in certainty. Shame can feel like a really squishy and uncertain emotion, but it has such a predictable outcome for every person who runs across it.  Some aspect of your being isn't enough. You don't have enough intelligence.  You don't have enough training.  You don't have enough patience.  You don't have enough love.  You don't have enough discipline.  You don't have enough physical strength.  Most of us structure our lives in such a way that we never have to face the areas of our lives that we don't feel "enough" in.  We don't speak or sing in public.  We don't do games.  We don't engage in conversations outside of our area of expertise.  We don't speak up in our area of expertise in case we're exposed for not being expert "enough".  "Enough" is a myth. And when shame enters the picture "enough" always moves just out of reach to expose us for what we don't have.  So what if we heard the voice of God celebrating what we are instead of what we