ˌinsiˈkyo͝oriti/
noun
- 1.uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence."she had a deep sense of insecurity"
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What Does Insecurity Look Like?
A poem written by a woman who struggles with insecurity
Good morning new day!
What do you see?
Who is this woman looking back at me?
Where did she come from and where is she going?
Does she know?
Deep inside there's a pain she can't hide.
And a side that she knows will be the death of her if she lets it live.
She can be a tad insecure.
She puts on her makeup in the morning light.
Making sure to get each stroke just right.
This here and that there, hair pulled back tight.
Time to put my face on.
Insecurity looks like too much makeup.
Ladies, why do we even wear makeup?
They say makeup is just to "enhance" our beauty.
But why does beauty need to be enhanced to be seen as BEAUTIFUL?
Do we really buy that?
I don't buy that.Take my picture!
But don't forget that Instagram filter.
Who are we trying to keep up with?
The girl on the cover, or some hidden lover?
The one they deem has got it all.
But inside she's the same.
She's just a girl.
Who wants to be loved.
Who wants to be seen as enough.
And be beautiful.
But they tell her she needs to do more.
Just to be sure.
So she's a tad insecure.
Insecurity looks like too many selfies.
Please see me.
Do you think I'm pretty?
Insecurity says put the best out there because the worst is too messy.
And it will push them away.
It tells you to always smile and be charming.
Never complain.
And don't be alarming.
Because doing that
would only mean harming
your bubble of being secure.
People only love you when you're perfect.
Where has it come from? And why does it control.
You're carefree heart and your beautiful soul?
Who do you think you are?
You must be confused.
You are no one.
Other than YOU.
To be someone else would be a mistake.
For you are the you that God chose to make.
And this I know is true.
Because his beauty and love rests on you.
And you are most fully and beautifully true
when you choose to love and accept YOU.
Uncertainty or anxiety about oneself. Feeling threatened, or feeling a lack of protection.
Insecurity makes me feel like something is missing in my life. Something I can't find anywhere. No matter how rich I am. No matter how well my relationships are going. None of them can last. They all falter and waver. Sometimes I'm seen as a good person. And sometimes my ugly shows. I just want something that is solid. Solid as a rock, as my foundation.
Where do we humans get this need to feel secure and safe? If we are just a product of violence upon violence, shouldn't we have gotten used to it by now?
Some things are pointers. They are like sign posts. Pointing us to the answer, if only we would listen.
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Matthew 7:24-27
Insecurity builds it's house on the sand. It says I will be loved because of what I can do and what I look like. It seeks security and unending love in all the wrong places.
And so it stays insecure.
But to look for unending love and acceptance and to find it.
Could only be.. divine.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy,cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:25
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
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