You Are Enough... You Are!

While this might be my shortest blog ever, I hope this might be the most powerful one for you. And if this is something that you needed to see, then I hope it helped you in some way. I hope that it gave you a little peace of mind, clarity, affirmation, and absolution.

Sometimes we need to also hear this from other people. Emily Buck did an amazing job when she wrote this poem…

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You are Enough— 

You are enough—

If you watch to much TV,

If you haven’t read all the books on your bookshelf,

And could have bought that DVD

With your overdue library fees.

You are enough—

If you can’t run like you used to,

Can’t throw like you used to
,

Can’t pump weights like you used to.

You are enough—

If you don’t do it right the first time.

If the sun burns your skin,

If you have to swim

With a t-shirt on.

You are enough—

If you can’t put on weight

Even though you try and try,

You fear

You’ll always be the kid 
with the chicken legs.

You are enough

If you don’t get an 80 on the exam.

You are enough—

If you are seen as savior
,

But the crashing waves of other people’s mistakes

Are wearing away your tired bones,

And you need someone else

To throw the life jacket today.

You are enough

If your best friend hit you.

If you let down the drunk girl—

Let yourself down,

Because you didn’t know better,

And still don’t know why 
it had to turn out the way it did.

You are enough—

If your credit card debt

Is so daunting,

All you do is

Smoke 
cigarette after cigarette after cigarette.

You are enough—

If you didn’t visit your neighbor,

Didn’t bring over soup as promised,

Then see his widow at the wake two weeks later.

  

You are enough

When you reach for the sky

But your shoulder locks.

You are enough
—

Even if your anxiety makes breathing difficult,

No matter how many times

You are reminded to try.

You are enough

—

If you loved and let go
;

Loved and were let go
;

Love, but never gave it a go.

You are enough—

If you don’t do your dishes,

Don’t take the garbage out,

And forget to mow the lawn.

You are enough

If you can’t do it perfectly.

You are enough

If you don’t do it all.

This is not just my opinion.

You are enough.