Finding Faith In Ourselves

We stand in our way.  The prospect of change is more frightening than is the familiarity of that failure that guarantees our weakness, our incompleteness.  If we let go, we would be as faithful to ourselves, only now to who we can be rather than to whom we may have been, that part that has so far wanted to be the entire self.  If we would become our failings and treasure our limitations, it is perhaps because we have no appreciation of our value, the meaning we have in ourselves and in God.  To hold so tightly to limitation is to lack faith in us, to have been too wary, too frightened to hope.