True Potential
December 29th, 2006
Recently we watched a wonderful movie titled, “Akelah and the Bee.” I highly recommend it. In the movie there is a quote read, but the source was not given. Today I was reading Waking the Dead, by John Eldredge and. . . there was the quote. It’s worth sharing:
“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 fell 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.” Nelson Mandela
January 10th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Well I am friends of AL and Diane Mellinger, they have been busy getting ready to go on a LONG missions trip. If you have not met them at one of the conferences yet, you will someday. They are some amazing people and the more I read about the other missionaries, I am just in AWE. I bet in one huge way its very exciting but Im sure there are some moments that you ask yourself what in the world was that. Either way keep the blog rolling, I promise to check back from time to time.
Ernie