The Lies We Tell Ourselves: How to Face the Truth, Accept Yourself, and Create a Better Life

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Apologies if you are reading this with a glass of something restorative in one hand, but last week, two new studies suggested that the drinking patterns we fell into during the pandemic are now having a grave effect on the nation’s health. The biggest plus to this book - besides character work, as we'll discuss in a minute - was the writing. Talley uses a device where she lists lies these two leads are telling themselves every few chapters, and it works perfectly. I'm almost willing to recommend this just for the stellar writing. Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina. “The Legacy of Lady Bountiful: White Women in the Library.” Library Trends, (2016) 667–86. Retrieved from: http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/library-publications/34. Come out with it and say it with the mindset of a student. That means that if you are wrong, you have an opportunity to learn what’s right. Over time, you’ll improve your judgment and decision-making abilities. You’ll grow and become better. I was so happy when, post-LIS, I came across the phrase “vocational awe.” It perfectly captures a sense of disillusionment I experienced entering the field and discovering that the idealized vision of libraries I learned about just didn’t exist. While we did cover lots of issues surrounding equity and freedom of access (i.e. convos about digital divide, looking at library policies and who they protected/targeted), I’m pretty ashamed that we spent very little time talking about the history of segregation and libraries.

Timidity comes with the devil and negates the gift of God which is the power of love. When the lie you tell yourself is that you’re not good enough, remind yourself that your “good enough” comes from God. Jesus fills in your empty spaces and you are complete in Him (Colossians 2:10). We tell ourselves over and over again, “ I need to be happy.” We question ourselves, “Why aren’t you happy?!” But the truth is, emotions are emotions. Yes, they will—a lot. That’s because you think you have reasonable control over the things that come out of your mouth, but a lot of times, you don’t.

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Let’s look at this answer purely from a spiritual aspect. (There are plenty of psychological reasons but we won’t go into that here.) I believe the answer to this question lies in Genesis 3 when sin began. Up to that point, mankind only knew the truth. They had no idea that lies were a thing because their main influencer was God.

Your authentic self can now move forward and grow. Let it. Other Articles On The Lies We Tell Ourselves But with her twin missing and someone hunting her down, she must trust him with her life. Can Lawson save her and her sister—even as Ashlee’s forgotten secrets become an inescapable trap? What do you do when someone is trying to kill you but you can’t remember who?Ashlee Taylor is in trouble and the only person who can help is her ex-fiance, Lawson Avery. The trouble is, she can’t remember what her problem is or anything about her past. But why don’t you hear people saying things like I’m just awful at walking or eating? Because they learned it. Of course, in some cases, the learning had to be done for survival. In other cases, people who had authority made you do it. But the point of it is that you worked hard and learned your way around them.Do not believe the lie that God can’t use you because of something you did in the past. Do not deceive yourself into thinking God cannot forgive you for your sins. If you confess your sins sincerely, God will forgive you (1 John 1:9). It’s just His nature and He can’t change.

That might apply to some extent to your formal education, but once you move into adulthood, the concept is no longer valid. You may think you are getting ready, but the world around you evolves at a much faster pace than you. Whatever you learn today will soon be obsolete. But I couldn’t resist for long. After all, who doesn’t love a cowboy? Thankfully, I found a way to merge what I loved—law enforcement, FBI, US Marshals—with the cowboy/family themed books my editor wanted to see by making my group of hero brothers a family of law enforcement types with ties to the family ranch. The best of both worlds. Score!We counteract the lie of perfection with the truth that God tells us: all of us have sinned (Romans 3:23). If all of us have sinned, it means we are not perfect. We cannot attain perfection through our own actions or on our own merit. Since that is true, we need to turn to a perfect Savior so we can find mercy and grace.

I often hear people say things like exercise is important to me, but I don’t have the time for it, with the kids and the job and this and that. I don’t have time. I also understand that everything that happened and all you’ve done so far in life has brought you where you are today. Getting regret into that equation would imply that you could’ve been in a different, better place had you had done things differently in the past. Biddle, Sam and Woodman, Spencer. “These are the technology firms lining up to build Trump’s ”Extreme Vetting Program.'” The Intercept. August 7 2017.Clinton, Rodham Hilary. “Closing General Session” (speech, Chicago, Illinois, June 27, 2017), American Library Association Annual Conference, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/HRC-Transcript.pdf The only issues I had with this story were the predictability of the last quarter of the book and the unrealistic ending. I think the ending was a little soft when compared to the beginning of the novel, there had been no real changes in the overall opinions of the community (obviously apart from Linda’s opinion) but everybody’s opinions seemed to have suddenly changed? If libraries are sacred spaces, then it stands to reason that its workers are priests. As detailed above, the earliest librarians were also priests and viewed their work as a service to God and their fellow man. Out of five hundred librarians surveyed, ninety-five percent said the service orientation of the profession motivated them to become librarians. 13 Another study found that the satisfaction derived by serving people is what new librarians thrive on. 14 Similarly, many Christians describe their religious faith as “serving God,” and to do so requires a life spent in service. Christians often reference Mark 10:45 to describe the gravity of a call to service: “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Considering their conjoined history, it should come as no surprise that librarians, just like monks and priests, are often imagined as nobly impoverished as they work selflessly for the community and God’s sake. One study of seasoned librarians noted that, “surprisingly, for a profession as notoriously underpaid as librarianship, not a single respondent mentioned salary” as a negative feature of the profession. 15 As with a spiritual “calling,” the rewards for such service cannot be monetary compensation, but instead spiritual absolution through doing good works for communities and society. E.g. ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC),Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT), Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), etc. [ ↩]