Less than confident means you do not know you belong on earth with all the full rights and privileges of a child of God. You think you are an interloper and that you must tiptoe around and perhaps curry favor.

Confidence isn't bold, but it will seem like bold to you who have heretofore hesitated to stand in your rightful place of honor at the head of the universe.

Confidence doesn't hesitate. Confidence doesn't tap its foot waiting for something to appear, for confidence knows that you have appeared, that you are here, and that you are the knower of who you are and what you are here for.

Physical life on earth is of a short span, but it is not on borrowed time. This is your time, not someone else's. You are here to shine, not dim. You are here to sing, not to hold back.

The space you occupy is yours to occupy. You are designed like a ship's prow that furrows through the waters. The ship's direction has been set. It was set long ago, and the ship does not waver or wonder about choices it makes no matter where or how. It has set sail, and so it sails, its flags blowing in the wind.

A ship sails forth, and so do you.

The waters do not have to be charted. Indeed, they cannot be. But you are set for your destination, and now you stride across earth. Your destination is assured. There is nothing for you to dilly-dally about.

Wherever you go today, you are supposed to be there. Wherever you chose to be today, you are. Wherever you are, be there fully. Be not in the wings.

The path has been readied for you. All is in readiness. The streets have been swept. The crowds part to make room for you. All is hushed waiting for you. Your time has come. Now is the moment to step outside whatever limits you have put on yourself. The moment you step out, the sun appears, for all is lighted in readiness for you. It must be so, for you are My light on earth.

If you have thought that you are not ready to go out, that is an error of your perception. You have waited for a signal, a bell to ring or a flare to go up. You forgot that all the signals went off when you were born. All it took was for you to be born.

Is there any reason to imagine that you were not born?

Therefore, you qualify for your ascension to your rightful place with the elders of the world. You are elder in the sense of wisdom. You are elder in the sense of love. This is not your first journey in the world. You are not a beginner. You are an elder.

If you are only at the threshold, that is because you have stood there. In that case, at least then, know that you are on the threshold. And once at the threshold, you know enough to step over it. Thresholds are meant to be stepped over. They are not stopping-places.

Once over the threshold, you have the singular awareness that you are in the right place at the right time. There is nothing left to bless yourself with but confidence. And so now you put on its robes. They were made for you. They fit you just right. Here, let Me see.