You are already enough

Black Girl Sabbaticals
Aug 23
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This is your reminder, beloved: you lack nothing.

The world may try to convince you that you need to earn your rest. That you must prove your worth. That more hustle, more effort, more sacrifice will finally make you deserving of stillness or love.

But that’s not the gospel.

The Quiet Truth

Scripture whispers a quieter reality:

“The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing.” — Psalm 23:1 (NIV)

This isn’t just poetic comfort. It’s a spiritual reality.

You are enough before the inbox is cleared. Enough before the goals are met. Enough before you fix, perform, or produce.

Your enoughness is not something to strive for. It’s something to remember.

Rest as Resistance

We were not designed to carry the weight of proving our humanity— not to this system, not to this world.

Your rest is your resistance. Your rest is your birthright.

A Spiritual Assignment

This week, let your practices reflect your enoughness:

Rest like you’re already enough.
Move like nothing is missing.
Speak to yourself with the compassion of God, not the criticism of grind culture.

Enoughness isn’t a finish line. It’s a rhythm. A sacred remembering. The breath before the breakthrough. The exhale after years of holding it all together.

Because in Christ, you are already whole, already chosen, already worthy.