Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are 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 are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

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.

—Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inauguaration speech

In my sermon yesterday that gave my reasons for not subscribing to the doctrine of predestination, I said that your destiny is to be adopted as a child of God. The sermon was A Tale of Two Towns Destined for Eternity.