“Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.
“I am my own worst enemy when I wrap myself in the familiar but tattered blanket of my long-standing fears and insecurities, seeking comfort in the known rather than braving the elements of the unknown.
“I am my own worst enemy when I rationalize my bad behavior and ignore the call to the good.
“I am my own worst enemy when I fixate on the ugliest part of my personality without putting it into the context of the whole. Our most vitriolic critic can be that loathsome voice that shouts at us from within, and there’s no way to escape it because how do you get away from yourself?
“I am my own worst enemy when I isolate myself from the rest of humanity and convince myself that nobody else could possibly understand.
“I am my own worst enemy when I justify my own sin.
“I am my own worst enemy when I deny my own belovedness.
“I am my own worst enemy when I call ugly what God has made beautiful and when I deem lovely what God has said is wrong, or when I take the ugly but untrue things that others have said and I believe them and nurture them and give them more influence than they deserve.”
