'How can we turn off the fear that makes our strengths into weaknesses and damages our relationships with others?' Photo: by Taylor Smith on Unsplash
Brace your self: Kate McNally’s Thought for the Week
‘Our weaknesses are often also our strengths.’
To be loved just as we are is a gift. To be worthy of this gift assumes that we strive to be our best selves. Being our best selves requires that we acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses – further, that we explore the ways in which they relate to each other. This relationship is not always obvious, but sometimes it becomes clear with a little reflection. For example, I can be confident, organised and persistent; I can also be arrogant, controlling and stubborn. With a little thought we can see how, for example, confidence and arrogance are two sides of the same coin. So are stubbornness and persistence, being organised and being controlling, and being discerning and being judgmental.
