A few weeks ago, I ordered the book, So Long Insecurity, by Beth Moore. On a whim, I ordered 2 and sent one to my mother-in-law, too. I know! What kind of crazy woman sends a book on insecurity to their mother-in-law. The funny thing was that I didn’t spend much time thinking about whether or not I should do it BEFORE I already went through the steps to send it to her. It was only when it was too late that I started to think, “Oh no. I hope I didn’t just send a message to my mother-in-law that communicated that I thought she had issues with insecurity.” So, as you can see, I, myself have a few (or a lot!) of issues with insecurity, as evidenced by my second-guessing in this process. Anyway. . . moving along from there.
My mother-in-law, that many of my readers refer to as “Mom” or “Chris” loved the book and has finished it and she wasn’t offended at all! I don’t think it took more than a couple of weeks for her to get through the entire thing and she loved it! And, from what I’ve read of it, I do to.
Everyone has hangups of some kind or another in regard to insecurity, but women seem to have it down to a science. In chapter 3, the idea of a “prominent false positive” is discussed. It’s the one thing that you (or I) think would make us more secure in all things. Think of a person you look at and perceive as secure. What is it that they have that you don’t? How would you finish this statement?-
“You know, ____fill in the blank with name_____, people who don’t know you very well would never be able to imagine that you struggle with insecurity. After all. . . “
What would you say?
. . . you have so many friends.
. . . you have a spouse to take care of you.
. . . you don’t have to worry about finances.
And the crazy thing is that person, who has the thing that we think would make us more secure, is still insecure themselves because someone else has something that they don’t have that they are sure would solve their problem.
I’ve been trying to think of what my “prominent false positive” is. I don’t know if I am sure what mine is yet. I plan to blog more on this as I work through the last half of the book.
What do you think? Does any of this resonate with you or sound interesting?
