I’m a retrospect type of girl, Haha. I find myself going through old pictures or looking at old pieces of writing and thinking that I looked really pretty or that I had a really insightful message. I give a lot of grace to the old me but not much to the present me.

I remember the other day I looked at an old picture of me that I’ve always hated and realized it wasn’t that bad. In the same way, I look at old writings that I thought were silly and ordinary and recognize how good it actually is in retrospect.

This is a practice of grace in my life. I am trying to extend the same grace to myself that God has extended to me and not feel defeated by this unrealistic bar of perfection that I placed in my path. But during this practice, I realized that this work of grace is being done with the old me and not the present me. It is so much easier to praise myself in retrospect than to look in the mirror and praise the person in front of me. So this week I am practicing positive self-talk. Who is with me?