As I was cleaning out my office tonight, I came across a box of words. These words are phrases, reminders, paraphrases, dreams, notes, letters, and cards. Some are written on paper, some on napkins, some on cardboard, some on Orbitz gum packaging, and some on church bulletins.
What these words are, really, is equal to that of a life line. I have this thing for words...I've collected pages and pages of quotes just to feel my heart go pitter-patter when I read them. I have kept ideas, dreams, visions and heartache. I love words and how they make me feel, so I was particulary moved when I came across a card from a dear friend who I call my fvery irst post-child friend. She had given me this card when my great grandmother passed, which was a few years ago. I am now convinced I sat down with this box tonight for a reason. These words held me so.
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 doesn't 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
So I share these words with you this evening in hopes that they meet you the way they met me. (Thanks, Nikki!).
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