Who Am I?

"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, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. 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."

Okay so something I've been thinking about a lot today is how I tend to sell myself short. Why the heck do I do this. Which is why I am loving this quote right now, as I am sure everyone else who as ever read it does. It is just perfect, why do we hide our light? Who exactly does that help? 

Now I am not saying by any means that I am perfect. But I am very good at a lot of things. Like painting for instance. I love to do it, but I always feel like I am inadequate. And then I go and paint something great, like my pot that I painted today. I love it, I love it so much I may never give it back to Rachel, okay so I will. But I do love it a lot. I sat and thought about what to paint on it for over an hour. I was just going to paint some flowers on it, and maybe shade it in and what not. But what I really wanted was a little girl picking flowers. Eventually I decided to stop being a chicken and go for it, and it is amazing if I do say so myself (which I do). 

So painting my flower pot may not be life changing, but it does signify something to me. I can do amazing things if I just do it (not to sound like a nike commercial, but it's too late for that.) Why waste all my time worrying about if I am good enough, when I can just step it up and find out. Yes I might just fall flat on my face, but maybe, just maybe, I will do great things. 

Thats just what I was thinking about today. 

Wish you well!

CJ

Oh and this is my lovely pot! (sorry the photo quality sucks, my computer does not take the best pics, and my camera is dead...)