You Are Loveable!
"O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is. Amen." Macrina Wiederkehr I had lunch at an Asian restaurant the other day and my Fortune Cookie had this to say to me: “Be yourself and you’ll feel at home anywhere.” Obviously this statement holds great truth, so what keeps so many of us from being ourselves? The answer is actually simple: We don’t feel lovable. There are way too many of us who never have felt lovable. According to Robert Holden, in his new book Loveability , “the basic fear ‘I am not lovable’ is what causes you to be afraid of everything.” This makes sense to me. I’ve been possessed by two interwoven basic fears since I was a small child. Those interwoven fears are “I am not good enough, therefore I am not lovable.” In my course of work, I discover everyday that almost everyone I encounter is haunted by these same two interwoven fears. And these two basic fears then spread fear and worry to every other a...