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"When Michele says journey, I start packing up my knapsack,
because I know my truth-telling friend has paid a price to know
what she knows. I encourage you to join in and encounter your own
"burning bush" on this illuminated path of discovery. And plan on
camping out on her brilliant questions. I'll bring
s'mores."--Patsy Clairmont, speaker, Women of Faith/Belong;
author, You Are More Than You Know
Michele Cushatt has earned the right to be heard. Period. If
you're looking for a couple of months' worth of platitudes,
you've chosen the wrong book. Textured by Michele's physical and
spiritual s from battles you wouldn't wish on your worst
enemy, I Am will both convict and thrill you. --Jerry Jenkins,
writer of the Left Behind series
On the pages of I Am you will find you are wanted, heard, healed,
enough, safe, and that you belong. You will not close this book
the same as when you started! --Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times
bestselling author; president of Proverbs 31 Ministries
If you ever struggle as I do with the question, "Am I enough? "
this book is for you. Michele didn't learn these powerful lessons
from the comfort of an armchair as a spectator of the lives of
others. The personal, practical wisdom she shares came from deep,
dark places and will bring light and healing to all who dive in.
--Sheila Walsh, cohost, Life Today
Using vulnerable personal stories, inful biblical teaching,
and soul- searching reflection, Michele Cushatt helped me reframe
my life through the lens of who God is and who I am because I am
His. Through this powerful sixty-day journey, I found hope and
courage to let God rewrite the story I am living and the story I
am telling myself every day. --Renee Swope, author, award-winning
A Confident Heart
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From the Author
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Do you ever wish you were someone else? Maybe not
every day or all the time, but you have those moments when you
take a long hard look at yourself and wonder: Who AM I? This is
SO not how I imagined ending up.
Yes? Me, too. In fact, for most of my life, I've been running
away from the real me and, instead, chasing this image of who I
wanted to be.
I wanted to be this amazing wife and mother, a smart
businesswoman, a world-changing Jesus follower. I wanted my life
to matter, to make a difference.
Problem is, most days I feel about as far away from those things
as the sea is from the sky. No matter how hard I try, I just
can't seem to get it right. I wake up early, I stay up late, but
the to-dos are never done. I start the day determined to love my
husband and children better, but then I want to wring their necks
usually before dinner. I read my Bible and pray, but I keep
blowing it, making mistakes, and acting anything but
Jesus-like.
The short of it is this: As much as I put on a confident front,
most days I struggle to like who I am.
For me, this struggle got more personal when a cancer diagnosis
and resulting surgery and radically altered my body, my
relationships, and my abilities. Then, like a hurricane forever
changing the landscape, I no longer recognized myself. I felt
lost in my own life and struggled to find any worth.
Our stories may be different, but the tension is the same. The
pressure to do more, be more has never been more intense. But,
sooner or later, something interrupts our efforts at
significance.
And in spite of all the promises of modern self-esteem strategies
and self-help plans, simply attacking the symptoms of our
dissatisfaction isn't enough. We need to find our way back home,
to the core of who we are, who we've always been, from the very
beginning.
This is why I wrote I Am: A 60-day Journey to Knowing Who You Are
Because of Who He Is. Because you and I, we've been buying into
the wrong standards, believing the wrong promises. I Am turns the
words of God himself into our clearest mirror, revealing a
value that cannot be affected by either our best offerings or our
worst failures.
It's time we stop chasing after value and instead receive it.
Join me, and let's find our way home, together.
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