What is your DEEPEST FEAR?

When this question is asked, many might think of the movie Coach Carter. This was the question Coach Carter kept asking Timo Cruz, one of the players in Richmond high school. Timo Cruz didn't know the answer, so did the rest of the team. In the end of the movie, Timo Cruz finally knew his answer. He answered this:

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. 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. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Is it truly our light that frightens us? I do think so. God has given us a potential that is ever growing! There is no limits to the things that we can achieve! How awesome is that? But what hinders us? What limits our desire to succeed? What holds us down into the level of mediocrity?

As Timo Cruz said, everyone is meant to shine. No one is an exception, but because of society, we choose playing small over excelling. Shrinking ourselves shouldn't be a choice for us so that others wouldn't feel insecure. If we conform to this idea, we are not only denying of ourselves what we can truly achieve, but we are also denying others of theirs.

Let us shine then as children of God! Why hinder what truly is ours? Why leave behind all the wonderful things we can achieve? Rather than accepting mediocrity, let us pull ourselves away from it. Let us then be excellent in all that we do for that is who we are and that is what we made to be. We are excellent.