Your playing small doesn't serve the world

Shine your dang light!

This weekend was the world-renowned Ojai Music Festival and by some stroke of luck or magic, I was this year’s program cover artist. This collage piece is called “Look For the Light”.

File under: Things I Never Imagined / Big Blessings From This Tiny Town.

I’m learning every day what it feels like to put myself out there. Put my art out there. What it feels like to let myself feel proud. Pride is a funny thing for me. I’m still unlearning oppressive messages I received growing up about remaining small. Even as I share this, something churns in me. Who are you to be an artist?

Maybe the better questions is: Who am I NOT to be?

What if the sun decided to not be the sun?

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 doesn't serve the world.

The mind is a funny thing. It can play all sorts of tricks on us, telling us stories that may have once held truth, or never did, and maybe don’t hold truth anymore or at all. If we’re not careful, we can buy into these stories, live them out. And we can miss what life has for us. We can miss the joy of being who we are, today, in this moment, right now.

May we know our brilliance and may we embrace it. If we are the sun, may we shine with all our might.

Jump + Pray,

Joce

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