Our Deepest Fear

Nelson Mandela - 1918 - 2013

There is a question of who actually said this quote below... of whether it was Marianne Williamson or Neslon Mandela.  No matter the case, I can truly see that this would be something that would be right up Nelson Mandela's alley, in what he would think, say, and have lived.  For he was all about being who we are called to be and not letting fears have victory over us but being more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. While I don't know much about him, I know and understand that he was truly a great man and God has done great things through him.  His example has been rooted in this world and has touched many lives.

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

does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened and 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 that is within us.

It is not just in some of us.

It's in everyone.

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.

~Rest in peace~

Nelson Mandela

Praising God - NO MATTER WHAT!

O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.

~ Psalms 107:8 ~

If we complained less, and praised more—we would be happier, our state of mind would be more balanced, and God would be more glorified.
Source: http://www.youdevotion.com/morneven/december/1
Let us daily praise God for common mercies—common as we frequently call them, and yet so priceless, that when deprived of them—we are ready to perish! Let us bless God for the eyes with which we behold the sun; for the health and strength to walk abroad; for the bread we eat; for the clothing we wear. Let us praise Him that we are not cast out among the hopeless, or confined in prison among the guilty. Let us thank Him for liberty, for friends, for family associations and comforts. Let us praise Him, in fact, for everything which we receive from His bounteous hand, for we deserve little, and yet are most plenteously endowed.  
But, beloved, the sweetest and the loudest note in our songs of praise should be of redeeming love. God’s redeeming acts towards His chosen people, are forever the favorite themes of their praise. If we know what redemption means, let us not withhold our sonnets of thanksgiving. We have been redeemed from the power of our corruptions, uplifted from the depth of sin in which we were naturally plunged. We have been led to the cross of Christ—our shackles of guilt have been broken off; we are no longer slaves—but children of the living God, and can rightly expect the period when we shall be presented before the throne without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Even now by faith we wave the palm-branch and wrap ourselves about with the fair linen which is to be our everlasting array, and shall we not unceasingly give thanks to the Lord our Redeemer? Child of God, can you be silent? Awake, awake, you inheritors of glory, and lead your captivity captive, as you cry with David, “Bless the Lord, O my soul—and all that is within me, bless His holy name!” Let the new month begin with new songs!