Daily Delight

My friend, you don’t have to keep running the race when you’re so exhausted. You don’t have to keep fighting the battle when you’re so weary. You don’t have to try to keep your head above the water when you’re drowning. You don’t have to keep up the performance when it’s not who you really are or who you even want to be. Let it all go. Give yourself the permission to stop doing the things that make you so unhappy. The things you do because you feel like you should, or because everyone else is doing them. Or because society expects you to. Or because YOU expect you to. You can stop trying to be the woman, sister, friend, daughter, wife, mother you think you ‘should’ be. You can stop trying to give people what you think they need.Striving for perfection, striving for performance, striving for expectation, striving for anything is exhausting, debilitating and ultimately defeating. Worst of all, you lose the true you. We need to let go of striving and embrace who we truly are. Because this is sustainable. This is life giving. This is freedom and healing, and this brings joy to our hearts, lives and homes! This is where true success is found. When we let go of the striving and embrace truth we give ourselves grace and live the life we were called to live, without comparing, feeling pressured or trying to live up to an expectation or an idea of perfection.When we let go of the striving our life becomes much more sustainable. Not just sustainable, but we begin to thrive and truly live our best life. We find peace, joy, excitement and a fresh lease on life...not the life we were so gruellingly striving for, but the life that we were designed to live. Our life. Your best life.Let it all go and allow yourself to live my friend!

“For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.” -2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (NLT)

About the Author

Natalie Fuller

Natalie is a mother of three (with a fourth on the way!) from Sydney, Australia who is passionate about encouraging, empowering and equipping women to discover and fulflil their God-given purpose and destiny.

With a background in counseling and psychology, as well as church planting and pastoring alongside her husband of 14 years, Nat is a passionate writer, speaker and preacher who loves to use her real life struggles, experiences and vulnerabilities to inspire and strengthen women in areas such as identity and security, healing and wholeness, freedom and intimacy with Jesus.

Nat loves anything to do with food! Cooking, wining and dining, traveling, but mostly opening her home and hosting dinner parties, casual gatherings and hosting events both big and small.