ShiningLight: My Personal Trainer

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!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

My Personal Trainer

I’ve been going to the gym now for 4 weeks and I actually love it every time. I even have my personal trainer. How? – You might ask. A personal trainer is very expensive! I don’t pay a cent for my personal trainer. Let me explain. As I go and train, it is a still quiet voice that spears me on: “Come on, Kerstin, you can do 5 more. Kerstin, you can do it, I KNOW you can!” It is a voice that challenges me to go further and to succeed. This encouraging voice belongs to my Lord, to the same Lord that actually got me into this gym. I am not only going to gym, but I am in the gym of my life and training the muscles of faith, of trust, of patience, of persistence. My personal trainer is teaching me discipline right now and I am so thankful for that. I cannot even begin to put into words how thankful I am for my Personal Trainer. He has many different names, yet HE is ONE.