I've been gifted with the challenge to share with you an experience that has
changed me for a lifetime. How can one condense a week as powerful and
transformative as Borderlinks into a sound bite that gives the experience
justice?

I could tell you the story of the young migrant family with two beautiful
children. The oldest was a five year old who was painfully shy. He hid silently
behind his mother's leg, a slender face peaking out ever so often. The little
sister's round, tan face had the same deep brown eyes of her brother and was

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 and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve this world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us;

For some personal devotional time I am reading, "Credo" by William Sloane Coffin.  It is full of experts from his other writings that summarize his beliefs and philosophies of life. 

Today, I read this short paragraph that really warmed my heart and connected deeply with who I am and what I believe: