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!


Wednesday, December 09, 2009

My adventure on this monday evening!

This was another Monday. I worked at the office and came home to take a nap. After I made myself a little something to eat, I relaxed on the couch. It was warm, so I had the windows wide open. After a little snooze on the coach, I heard my neighbors come, so I opened my door to say HI. As I stepped out, my door banged shut. The wind had created quite a drift. Bang. So now I stood outside (not even shoes on) and my cell phone, my keys and car keys and everything was in my apartment!! Oh man!!!! At this moment, my neighbor from the other side (her name is Beauty) came with her daughter. I realized that my big window was open so maybe if I find a big ladder, I could ask my downstairs neighbors if I can go through to their yard and tackle my flat from the back. Beauty works at a school only 5 minutes from our complex and she knows the genitor. “They have such a big ladder, Kerstin. Let’s go”. So after Beauty’s daughter gave me her shoes, Beauty and I went to the school, got the ladder and came back with it (this was quite a sight). We asked my neighbors that live underneath me and they let us through into their yard. From there, I climbed this ladder. Boy, what an adventure. I got in, got my own shoes and went out to help Beauty carry the ladder back. God shoed His favor in such a great way!! If I had not opened the windows…..if my neighbors underneath me had not been there…..if I had not found a ladder…… I am surrounded by awesome neighbors and engulfed by a great great God!!!

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