Tuesday is better than no day at all…

OK, so it’s not Sunday anymore. Sunday was a crazy day, and I didn’t get my blog turned in to the Web Majesty in time. But now that she’s taught me how to post my own blogs, I’ll have no more excuses. So pretend it’s Sunday, and hear the words of the Sunday Blog.

“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 feel insecure around you. We are born to make 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.”
–Marianne Williamson

“…it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about…when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
–C. S. Lewis

I love both of these quotes so very much, and, although it might be a stretch to some, I find that their separate thoughts connect beautifully.

There lies, within each of our hearts, some obstacle which prevents us from fully embracing the incredibly astonishing dreams that our Creator has dreamt for us. Whether it is fear, doubt, a need to control, stubbornness, laziness, or a combination of these things that stands between who we are and who God longs for us to be, we can rest assured that we’ll always be wrestling with such challenges.

“Gee, thanks, GO. That’s encouraging. Why don’t you consider blogging about happier subjects.”

But it is happy—well, maybe happy is the wrong word. It’s joyful…it’s hopeful…We are alive for so much more than we can see from our tiny window—we were created for purposes we cannot possibly imagine. And we’re given the humbling opportunity to be reflections of God’s radiant beauty to all those we come in contact with—should we choose to receive that gift. What a blessing it is, then, to be alive!

So keep wrestling those beasts to the ground! Keep radiating the hope God has given you! And most of all, never stop believing in the magnificent dreams, incredible glory, and perfect Love of the One you cannot see. This belief will make conquering the obstacles a much more invigorating adventure.