Hope or Doubt

I (Don't) Have a Dream... from Gateway Church on Vimeo.

Hope or Doubt? What are you guided by? Doubt keeps us shackled down like a fish stuck in mud. Yet this same doubt is all around us .. Unfortunately today's society is plagued with limitation. We unconsciously put these limitation on each other through expectations and judgments. I believe Martin Luther King Jr. along with many other great individuals did not seek to meet expectations or judgment from peers but rather seek to attain full "Being". It is from this place we can attain wisdom and compassion that doesn't need approval from others. There is no doubt in this place as we are fully trusting in Spirit.

Here is a remarkable passage from Marianne Williamson's - A Return to Love

"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 doesn’t serve the world. There’s 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’s 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’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."