Is it the economy or the fear of becoming a bag lady?  Is it the fear that no one will love you and don’t want to take care of you?

For so many of us it is the fear of ending up on the street.  It is the fear of not being able to take care of our self and our family.  It is actually the fear of failure, the fear of your inadequacy and living in darkness.

Marianne Williamson in her book “Return of Love” offer a different perspective.  There she says: “It is our light not the darkness that frightens us the most.”  It is our fear of how powerful we are, the fear of what happens when we do NOT play small.  We are afraid of what happens when we allow ourselves to be and do what we are meant to be and do.  As Marianne Williamson says: “There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so other people won’t feel insecure around you.”  Yes, who am I to play small and to shrink so other people feel secure around me.

Having done that for most of my life, where has it gotten me?  It has made my world so much smaller.  I am playing in only a corner of the world, dark corner.  How come I am in the darkness?  It feels safe, secure.  Where are all the people that I worked so hard on trying to make them feel secure around me?  They are not any where around me now.  They have moved on.  It is now up do me to open up my world and dare to step into the light.  It is horrendously scary to be in the light and be the powerful woman I was meant to be.  What I have accomplished when I stay in that mindset is many times more than being in the dark.  It can be scary to see what gets done when you stay in the light.  It takes courage to be there.  I have to remember that this is who I am and it is in the light that I become stronger.

It is by staying in the light, allowing myself to grow and become stronger, that I can live a life of abundance.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna