"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 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."
- Nelson Mandela

It's time to stop thinking that giving up on myself is okay, no matter the state of others. It's time to begin thinking everyday that it is my job to make myself better, and through that do the same to those around me, not in light of comparison, but in light of the fact that God calls me to do so. It's time to stop being scared of childlike authenticity. God made me(us) authentically fabulous. Inadequacy is not the question, the question is improvement. God is trusting me to be a servant of the Gospel, inadequacy is not an option.  It's just time.