Stand Tall

Have you ever watched the CEO of a company walk around?  Or an owner of a business strutting between their employees?  I can only liken it to a lion roaming their domain.  No fear, no hesitation.  They earned their spot and there is not a reason for them to feel in any way lacking.  It is this way that we should walk around the earth.  Not in a cocky sort of way or in a way that demands attention, but instead with ownership.  A couple days ago a friend mentioned that we need to walk around as if we own the gym, the mall, or the hair salon.  You want to walk away and have someone say, "Who is that?".  Not in a rude sort of way, but in a status of influence.  There is a different mentality that takes place when you believe you belong somewhere. 

I think a lot of the time I am inclined to feel like I need to earn my right to be here.  That I am not deserving in and of myself.  This is ridiculous.  If you are a Christian, you know that our right comes from being made and placed here, alone.  Not to mention that Christ dying rids any right to shame I may have.  If you aren't a Christian you can at least agree that I have just as much of a right as anyone else.  Knowing this, my honest goal is to live this way.  To walk as if I own the room.  I need to be comfortable any place I go, no matter who I am with.

When I was in high school I was incredibly insecure.  Take my current self times 50 billion+.  I think in all honesty, everyone is, but no one has the security to admit it.  Whenever I think about the people I spent time with back then I feel like I currently need to prove myself to them; that I have changed and I am a different person now.  The sad part is that the need to get their approval is faulty in and of itself.  I have grown and changed so the need to prove that is ridiculous.  

My strength in myself needs to withstand and overcome the pressure pushing on me to run back to the cave I once lived in.  I am who I am and I have just as much right to stand tall as anyone else.  I am now bold, beautiful, and confident.  There is no reason to hesitate in my current skin based on being around people from my past.  My spirit longs to be revealed, and that is never going to happen when my confidence is dependent on the world around me.  It is my responsibility to walk tall everywhere I go, because this is a beautiful world and I have the right to walk in it.

"Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save." -Psalm 146:3