Favored by my Father

If I don't believe that I am highly favored by God, I will draw tiny circles.  If I'm not convinced that God delights in me, I'll likely believe instead, the voices in my head that say, you are not qualified, you don't have what it takes, you don't have anything to offer, you don't count...  And the beauty that could have been, the good works prepared for me before my first heart beat, the glory of God in a fully trusting heart, will be eclipsed by striving, self-consciousness and flickering glints of something that could have been. 

As Ann Voskamp so beautifully describes it here, when I'm able to turn my back to everything but the acceptance that really matters, then the music really begins.  Only then will I have the courage to draw circles around those things that challenge, frighten and inspire me, and trust God to do what only He can do.