Live In The Sweet Spot Of Life

I often find myself scared to let my light shine. You know that sweet spot of life, when you feel like you are living completely and authentically as yourself? That's where your light shines most. Sometimes I let fear get in the way of my desire to live fully in that space. I've come to realize it's primarily because I'm afraid of how people might receive me when I'm fully me. Being rejected for being only partially me feels a lot easier to accept than if I were to be rejected for being fully me. I know we can never please 100% of the people 100% of the time. I also know that when people aren't pleased they usually voice their displeasure. Yeah, so that scares me too.

span style="line-height: 1.22;">NASHVILLE, TN - Matthew 5:16: Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.

There is no logic in dimming your light for any reason whatsoever. Perhaps you may think others will say you are arrogant because you claim to have a light that shines from within, because it means you claim that there is goodness within you to be shared. I know I fear that judgement. When it comes to this kind of talk, I usually find myself dwelling on the me when I'm at my worst and then I imagine that must be how everyone else sees me too... all that yuck. This is the point that I begin to buy into the lie that I am not good enough to think I have a light that shines from within. This is the point that I begin to think, who am I to think there is any good within me to even share with the world? But I know that there is. There is good in all of us. Some choose to allow more good to come through than others.

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