Are you ever plagued by a vague sense of failure or guilt or responsibility? Like it just follows you around like a black cloud?
I think we have been trained by religious culture to attribute that fuzzy sense of "being not enough" to God. Because we can't ever be good enough, right? So He can't actually ever be completely pleased with us.
The trouble with that vague, fuzzy feeling is that there is no solution for it. There is no strategy for alleviating it. It just hangs there over our heads, suffocating us.
And, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think that sounds like something God would do.
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