Why can't we feel this way all the time... We are God's creation. He thinks we are beautiful. We can make a difference. We are worth it. Live it. Love it. Believe it.

Fearless: p. 26

Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains. If a basketball player stands at the foul line repeating, "I'll never make the shot, I'll never make the shot," guess what? He'll never make the shot. If you pass your days mumbling, "I'll never make a difference, I'm not worth anything," guess what? You will be sentencing ourself to a life of gloom without parole.

Even more, you are disagreeing with God. Questioning his judgment. Second guessing his taste. Accoding to him you were "skillfully wrought" (Ps. 139:15) You were "fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). He can't stop thinking about you! If you could count his thoughts of you, "they would be more in number than the sand.

Why does he love you so much? The same reason the artist loves his painting or the boat builder loves his vessels. You are his idea. And God has only good ideas. "For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago" (Eph 2:10)