Do you think you don’t have enough to offer, enough to say, enough to make a difference?
Are you holding back your message, not showing up for your mission because you don’t think you have enough to offer yet?
Like you have to learn a little bit more or polish up your words a little better or feel more confident and clear about things before you step up in a bigger, bolder way?
You’re kinda comparing yourself to people who have been in the game a while and just wonder what you could possibly have to offer that these legends don’t already shine at, huh?
Let’s just be clear on something.
You will never feel quite ready.
There will always be someone to compare yourself to.
Fear will always try and stop you.
That’s fear’s job.
But your job is to be bigger than your fears.
Say “thank you so much for showing me my thresholds! Now I’m ready to breakthrough so please just step aside! Or don’t, but I’m doing this regardless!”
All great messengers started small.
All great messengers once had doubt.
All great messengers once had no audience to talk to.
But the message burned bright enough, strong enough, deep enough that denying it became impossible.
And you’re feeling that same burn.
You know the only way to feel good is to just show up and do the work.
Be the channel.
Speak the message.
But the feeling of fear is almost greater than the possibility of freedom.
Almost.
Your ego is trying its damndest to convince you that you’re better off playing small and hiding out.
And maybe you’d believe it if you were new to this game.
But you’ve been at this long enough to realize that it’s too painful to play small.
Denial is no longer an option.
The message must come out or else you’ll die!
Of course if you aren’t a born messenger that sounds melodramatic.
But if you were born to shine and share, you know exactly what I mean.
There comes a point in time where you put your foot down, draw a line in the sand, and say, “Today is the day when everything changes! Fear will no longer control me! I must do what I’ve been called to do. I have no choice any more!”
And that declaration is exactly what God needs from you to pour out His support, creative wisdom, infinite genius, power, and grace.
You see, you felt scared because you felt alone. But you never were.
You thought you had to do the work.
But it has already been done.
You thought you had to think your way through this.
But your mind was just getting in the way.
Of course you would be scared as a drop of water thinking it had to figure out how to be the ocean.
You just merge.
You allow.
You become.
You become used by God as a vessel for greatness.
It is not you doing the work.
And now you know.
Maybe you already did. Maybe you always did.
On some level that’s true for all of us.
But I’m shining the light on the Truth so that you remember.
You have to be willing to get completely out of the way and just show up.
Show up awkwardly.
Show up clumsily.
Show up willing to mess up until you get it right.
Because the only thing you have to perfect is letting go more.
Allowing more.
Caring less and less about what others think and being who you were born to be regardless of who listens.
