Our precious Willy sent this to me to post here today.  After sitting and ’soaking’ all that I heard yesterday and having the privilege of speaking to a small, but mighty group of women yesterday - this poetic prose is so “right on” for this morning.  Enjoy!

We all need prayer and encouragement at times.  I believe this will encourage someone today.

“Women of AWP Shine as you were created to do.

Thanks to Marianne Williamson
 
 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 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.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
 
A return to love - Marianne Williamson”

Thanks so much, Willy for sharing this.  We are awesome!  We are women who have much to offer - much to give.  We are a gift to our world, regardless of the size of that world.

Hopefully I’ll have time later today to say a little more, but what I can say at the moment is “Wow, what an awesome conference!”

Today, more of the same and another session with the fabulously bright, witty, wise and profound Dr. Lance Wallnau.  Last night I/we discovered that Lance is Jewish by birth, but is now Messianic.  Same is true for the woman (Linda Rios Brook) who led yesterday’s women’s conference.  And they are so rich in knowledge and wisdom.  I’ll have a difficult time - once again - with ‘re-entry’.

Have you had those ‘mountaintop experiences’ that lifted you way beyond the mundane of daily living?  Only to have to make the not-so-exciting descent back to common ground?

It’s not easy, but it’s necessary!  We can’t live on the peak of life all our days, no matter how much we want to.  What the mountain tops are for is to equip us with ‘new stuff’ that we are to cart back with us and share with others so that the learning goes beyond ‘me’ to ‘you’!

It no longer comes in the form of clay tablets, but it’s just as important and profound as if it were.  What we learn while gazing from on high is meant to return to earth and water the lives of others who are ‘thirsty’ for fresh water.

So over the next several days, I’ll try to bring ‘fresh water’ from the well of wisdom that is a part of these days on the northside of Atlanta.  It’s good to get a fresh viewpoint and see things from a different angle and vantage point.  It’s good to sit at the feet of those more knowledgeable than me and chew on the morsels of greater understanding they graciously share.

I hope you like learning new things!  I do and I love sharing them with all of you.  So hopefully they won’t drop into the deep well of memory to be forgotten before I carve them here in ‘wet cement’!

Stay tuned and stay connected.  Have an awesome day with much love and many blessings.

 Linda & Willy