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
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