The biggest growth I’ve had going into my 20s has been learning to say no and not trying to save everyone. Since I started my channel when I was 15 I’ve gotten thousands of messages of people so broken and desperate. For the majority of my channel I viewed myself as a means to an end to making sure people didn’t commit suicide, felt self worth and were able to find help for their depression and healing from heartbreak. God made me such an empathetic person and that forced me to prioritize everyone above my sleep, above classes and above my emotional health. It is OVERWHELMING seeing so much pain in the world and being able to respond individually and make an actual difference. But I’m at a point now where I take long breaks from reading messages on certain social media (I do rounds of which one I focus on haha), don’t try to respond to every comment or try to pray for EVERY person. It doesn’t even bother me anymore when people complain that I am horrible for “ignoring” their comments and messages (EVEN happens during livestreams haha when I am trying to be soooo personal and 1-on-1) The past 2 months I’ve been working with college students and leading bible studies and the often low attendance (liberal colleges haha) has been SO breakthrough for me being able to view each individual person as so extremely valuable and needed and gifted and loved by God. It feels like I can breathe better doing ministry also in person rather than hundreds of people online. I LOVEEE getting older and growing up in this stage of my life. It took me too long to view myself as intrinsically valuable and to feel fulfilled doing just a little and focusing in. It is AMAZING if there are sooo many opportunities for ministry around you, but God does not want you to spread yourself so thin and try to love everyone. Focus in and give your ALL to a few people you invest in your passion the absolute most. Pray for the wisdom to know who that is, what that looks like in your life 🙏
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The biggest growth I’ve had going into my 20s has been learning to say no and not trying to save everyone. Since I started my channel when I was 15 I’ve gotten thousands of messages of people so broken and desperate. For the majority of my channel I viewed myself as a means to an end to making sure people didn’t commit suicide, felt self worth and were able to find help for their depression and healing from heartbreak. God made me such an empathetic person and that forced me to prioritize everyone above my sleep, above classes and above my emotional health. It is OVERWHELMING seeing so much pain in the world and being able to respond individually and make an actual difference. But I’m at a point now where I take long breaks from reading messages on certain social media (I do rounds of which one I focus on haha), don’t try to respond to every comment or try to pray for EVERY person. It doesn’t even bother me anymore when people complain that I am horrible for “ignoring” their comments and messages (EVEN happens during livestreams haha when I am trying to be soooo personal and 1-on-1) The past 2 months I’ve been working with college students and leading bible studies and the often low attendance (liberal colleges haha) has been SO breakthrough for me being able to view each individual person as so extremely valuable and needed and gifted and loved by God. It feels like I can breathe better doing ministry also in person rather than hundreds of people online. I LOVEEE getting older and growing up in this stage of my life. It took me too long to view myself as intrinsically valuable and to feel fulfilled doing just a little and focusing in. It is AMAZING if there are sooo many opportunities for ministry around you, but God does not want you to spread yourself so thin and try to love everyone. Focus in and give your ALL to a few people you invest in your passion the absolute most. Pray for the wisdom to know who that is, what that looks like in your life 🙏
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