Daughters of Promise March/April 2015 | Page 18

THE LORD IS MY Sufficiency by Tanisha Stutzman Photography by Lyndsi Stoltzfus f you’ll allow me to be very real with you for a few minutes, I’d like to open my heart and take you on a tour down its corridors to a place God’s recently been working on. My hope in doing this is that you’ll recognize similar places in your own heart and gain courage from the story I’m about to tell you. Let me tell you a bit about myself. I am an oldest child and therefore an overly organized and self-disciplined sort of a soul. Since those are my natural strengths, I suppose it makes sense that when I became a Christian (which is all I ever wanted to be since the time I can remember) I turned to those strengths to help me become the best Christian I could be. That wasn’t necessarily bad, but it skewed my concept a bit of what victorious Christian living looked like. My idea of an effective Christian life entailed getting past all those weaknesses and pitfalls I so despised in 18 myself and others. Such [