When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!

My heart was burdened talking with a dear friend, a long and tearful talk about life. It's so hard to see her hurts and wounds from the past brought back up. My heart hurts to see her struggling through her relationship with her dad and never hearing him tell her she was beautiful. To see her strive over works to gain approval, wrestling through depression, not able to live in the freedom as a child of God because she cannot believe those things about herself. We don't need approval from anyone- we already have it in Jesus! As the Derek Webb song, "And don't you ever let anyone tell you that there's anything that you need, but Me."