ShiningLight: AMAZING GRACE

BEYOND MEASURE

"OUR DEEPEST 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 IN US. IT'S NOT JUST SOME OF US. IT'S IN EVERYONE.
AND AS WE LET OUR 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 - and quoted by Nelson Mandela 1994 at his inauguration!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

AMAZING GRACE

Wow my head is full of good statements, full of words like GRACE and full of good stuff that is hard to put to paper. I need to process. The word GRACE has taken pretty much all my attention now, though. Grace, what a word, no word can really explain it, no scent can really describe it....well, someone called it :a faint whisper which we YET got to catch and understand. GRACE is such a foreign concept for me, so far from my normal life, so far from what I experience and yet that is what I want , that is what I love to have: GRACE! I need GRACE to survive and God gives it to me freely every day: EVERY DAY. I am writing it down and still it seems so unreal- do you know what I mean? I know that as a human being I will always struggle with this concept of GRACE. That is okay; however I want to come closer to God's definition of it. GRRRACE, say it out loud, right now, GRAAAAAACE, isn't it a beautiful sound? I need it. I need GRACE in relationships and in the way I see myself, I need GRACE , I need it desperately. I am holding out my hands, learning to receive DAY BY DAY the GRACE, sweet GRACE, AMAZING GRACE!