Identity & Purpose

How God Wired Me

by Jo Saxton

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Have you ever made yourself smaller to make others more comfortable?

In this reflection, Jo looks back on her 20s, the years of striving, self-doubt, and hiding, and what it took to unlearn those stories. Through the Hebrew word ezer, meaning 'to rescue, to protect, to be strong' she came to see that strength isn’t something to hide but something God intentionally placed within us.

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