The Chess Master

Checkers in a Chess World

Here's what grandmasters know that most people miss.

You can't win by only thinking three moves ahead.

For years, I played life like checkers. Plan B, Plan C, Plan D—all the way down the alphabet. Being a mom of two girls meant I had to think fast, move faster, always calculating the next threat.

But here's the thing about playing defense your whole life: you forget there's an offensive strategy.

The mind is one of the most powerful things ever. Mine was stuck playing not to lose instead of playing to win.

The roughest part? You don't even know you're playing the wrong game. You don't even know you've been moving pawns when you could have been moving queens.

No one ever tells you what happens when you spend years protecting instead of promoting. You become brilliant at crisis management and terrible at joy cultivation.

For me, it took stepping back and seeing God as the ultimate Chess Master. Learning that He's been orchestrating moves I couldn't even see.

Soul Esteem is about realizing you've been playing checkers in a chess world. Coming out of defensive mode and allowing yourself to see the bigger board is the only way you can truly heal.

I became done with being a pawn in everyone else's game because there were beautiful moves I was missing.

You never arrive at checkmate. You're consistently learning the game. You're consistently giving yourself permission to play the strategy that God intended for you to have in the first place.

Jesus Christ was the ultimate Chess Master. Even facing the cross, He was thinking eternal moves ahead.

Are you playing checkers or chess?

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