WOW...

I've been trying not to post more than once a day, but I couldn't resist. I actually posted this on my MySpace blog, and I wasn't going to post it here, too, but I decided that it was just too big of a deal to me not to post.

So I'm reading Waking the Dead by John Eldredge and I find myself on guard. Its almost as if I'm afraid to believe that what he is saying is true... if you haven't read it... READ IT!

So in it he quotes Nelson Mandela... and I just had to post it:

"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 manifest the glory of God that is within us... 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."

HOLY COW! I was just saying in my "About me" on MySpace that I'm beginning to recover from the feeling that I have to shrink so that I don't scare/intimidate people! Is that just the biggest lie from Satan or what!?!

Of course there's sincerity and sensitivity and prudence and wisdom, but those are not the reasons we hide ourselves... not for me anyway... not if I'm really looking deep. For me its just all of that covering up the big lie from Satan that sounds reasonable (they always do) so that my true light... the strange character God has made me to be... can't shine through and make the impact its capable of... wow... okay, I'll be chewing on that for a while.