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Worthy is Who You Are
Have you ever had the thought “Who am I to think that I can do this thing?” And of course, “this thing” could have a lot of different meanings.
This feeling of being a fraud, or of not knowing what we are doing, is so much more common than we think. In our world where we are taught to always compare ourselves to others, it is sometimes hard to stand in the truth of our own talents. We may even have heard the expression, “Who do you think you are?”
I know in my own life I have often felt like I am a fraud. I sometimes feel like others (others means anyone else) know more than me. It has kept me from taking risks. It has kept me from doing things that I wanted to do. It has prevented me from allowing my true self to come out.
Fraud is a strong word. It implies that one is intentionally trying to deceive someone into thinking that we know something when we know we don’t. So I believe that the feeling of being a fraud is simply not applicable to what I am referring to.
Really what we are talking about is something much deeper. It is a feeling of a lack of worthiness. Unworthiness is really the thing under the fraud. It is that belief that what we are trying to bring to the world is not worthy of being seen. It is that feeling that we will be ridiculed for who and what we are. It is that feeling of not being enough.
