“I feel bad about…” I began.
My husband joked it was time for my daily list of “things I feel guilty about that I probably have no control over anyway.” If only he wasn’t right!
Too often, I find myself stuck replaying all the ways I could have done better, loved more, anticipated and therefore better responded, and so on. Some of it comes from conviction of sin. Some of it comes from cultural narratives or others’ expectations of me. But some of it is actually feeling badly that I didn’t manage to be sovereign and perfect.
This, I’ve learned, is called false guilt. And I’m probably not the only one who experiences it…
{Read the rest over at Journeywomen, where I’m grateful to be sharing today.}