Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You
are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t
feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson
This
quote is amazing. I want to read it everyday until I can quote it o
myself from memory. Imagine if we could all live life like this? My
favorite line from this quote is "Your playing small does not serve the
world, there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won’t feel insecure around you.” I think this is so powerful. If
I could only walk in the fullness of who God has made me to be and not
base how I act or respond on who I am with I know I would be a much
stronger person.
I found myself at the alter praying for a
young girl one Sunday morning. After I prayed she asked me if I was
Prophetic because what I prayed was what she was going through. It kind
of surprised me; it actually affirmed in me that God does use me
sometimes to speak into people’s lives. Yet I felt inadequate to be
using that gift since it had been so long since I had heard that from
someone. I immediately felt to down play what she had interpreted as a
gift of prophecy in an effort to not intimidate her and to feed my own
inadequacy. I tried to shrink back in hopes of making myself seem more
like her, and less like a Ministry person. My intentions were to make
her feel comfortable yet I accomplished just the opposite by not
embracing the words of this quote. God used me that day to minister to
her and instead of letting my light shine and giving her permission to
do the same, I chose to shrink back and failed God in that moment. The
truth is if God speaks to me, its God and not me anyway. I wish I could
go back to that day and say to her… Thank you for reaffirming that
gift in my life, God just used you to minister to me too. Isn’t God
Great!
God make manifest the Your Glory in me and in us all.
