I am Isabella Dominguez but I am also…

Alrighttyyyyy!! I hope you guys are having a fantastic week! With all that has been going on it feels like a lot in the moment but, at the end of the day it’s the same old same old kinda stuff! I am so thankful for the time I get to spend with my family in between my two jobs and church activities that I have been helping with. With all that said the only LIFE UPDATE I have is that I just applied for the house waiver at my college to be able to live at home with my family! I am hoping and praying so hard that they will accept my living waiver since I am technically not meeting all the requirements it’s going to take PRAYER to get this accepted!

Now onto what I want to talk about which is my name! Yeah, I know I chose a very selfish topic, but I have a point to this just keep reading.

I am Isabella Dominguez. I am a Puerto Rican-American, who was born to missionaries who came off the field. I am a pastor’s kid now, living in Colorado where my dad was called to serve. I am a horse rider who showed in county fairs and enjoyed every bit of it. I am a violin player, because my mom and dad were willing to pour their money and time into taking me to lessons, and plan on continuing to study music. I am a runner that loves signing up for races, and beating my time.

I am a girl who had her heart broken a few times starting in high school by different boys she thought she would marry and continues to pray for the one who won’t break it. I am a girl who has been talked about behind her back, I am a girl who has lost some people she really cared about for reasons that she still doesn’t understand. I am a girl who has issues with how she looks and if she eats too much one day, she just wants to cry. I am a girl who has been injured and have lost races due to pain that took a while to heal. I am a girl who can’t take compliments because I either think they are just fake words meant to fill the awkward silence in conversation. or I believe I truly don’t deserve it because they haven’t seen the way I have failed. I am the girl who dropped out of Bible School. I am the girl who can’t keep a relationship to stick. I am the girl that is just MEDIOCRE and hasn’t accomplished much.

How am I looking to you at this point. Kinda bumming you out? It’s ok I just bummed my own self out. These thoughts are on a broken record that keeps repeating every night as I try to fall asleep. But before you think I am this depressed mess of a person, there’s some other thoughts that come to mind of who I am because I have been given a name that no one could take away from me! I am a born again, loved by Jesus, Christian! I am a girl who is Loved by the Author and Finisher. I am the girl that goes to God when she replays all those thoughts you just read in the previous paragraph. I am the girl that is confident because my identity isn’t in those failures, but in something that’s greater than I could ever imagine. I am the girl who is striving to find God’s plan for her life, not focused on what others think her plan should be. I am the girl that goes to ladies in the church to confide in and get Biblical advice and counsel. I am the girl that knows the fight can only be fought on my knees and surrendering everything to the one who is working all things for good.

I AM FOUND
I AM FORGIVEN
I AM LOVED
I AM MADE IN HIS IMAGE
I AM A CHILD OF GOD
I AM HIS

Where do you place your identity? The only identity that is everlasting, is the identity of being found in Christ! My view of who I am has never been so clear, my goals have never felt so reachable, because they aren’t mine, they are given to me by God and I am here to fulfill His purpose. The burden of finding who I am is lifted because it isn’t up to me. it is up to Him!

Girl, if you are struggling with how you view yourself whether in relationships, or body image, or whatever else you are struggling with. Reach out to me! Being on this journey, the one thing that is so clear is that God gave us each other to strengthen and lift each other up in Him. We are in this together! DM me, email me, just reach out! I love all y’all!

“For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” -Ephesians 2:10 KJV-

Sincerely,

Bella <3