We're Called to Hold Our Hands Against the Wounds of a Broken World...

Take your time with this one. Its only the ramblings of girl who can't sleep, but my hopes are to finally express the feelings of change and wholeness that have exploded within my being. On rainy, cold, mediocre, thursday we left the vice grip of half moon bay and drove. Drove on and on and on for eight hours. My mind's conception of what could be waiting for me would never materialize because the clamor for my attention was overwhelming. Thus, i had no expectations. Had i any, they would have been shot to pieces. Upon arrival at that surreal snowflake land somewhere between heaven and my dreams, a sense of peace and belonging became my companion. I felt a home, like no other place i've known. It was all new yet so familiar, like the song on the radio that speaks your very thoughts.

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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, 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, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.