The Light Within

The Light Within

“Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -E. E. Cummings

I personally have struggled with learning to have confidence in myself and truly it can be a daily struggle at times.  I honestly don’t think I am alone in this struggle. So over time, I have started a new view that when I feel inadequate or less than what I think I need to be, I fake it. And I fake it knowing that I am capable of really doing it or being it by the simple virtue of divine belief in myself.

“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 that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine.” -Marianne Williamson

We all were created with talents and skills, capacities and flaws, and we are unique. No one else has quite the same mix of ingredients and we are cooking in the environment we are born into. So whether you are an angel cake, devils cake, pie even a flan, there is no one else like you and no one can do the job; your job you were sent to do. So be of good cheer, breathe in the knowledge and know that even when you doubt yourself others believe in you.

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

So my friends, let your light within shine even when you doubt your own strength, beauty or abilities. It is when we allow our true self to shine though the doubt you get to really see how effulgent you truly are. I am confident, that divine has given me all that I need to be me and I will shine doing it.

In Love and Light,

Jenna Bertrim 

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