The greatest gift we can
give someone is
inviting them to be
fully themselves with us
and then cheering them on
as they pursue all
they are meant for.
We don’t all receive this gift.
And this is why:
We withhold
permission from
others to step
into all that they are
made for
because it will
personally cost us something.
It sure doesn’t feel great
when this happens to me.
I feel defeated
and it is that much
harder for me to
take up my space.
I don’t appreciate when someone
denies what I see in me,
or tries to keep me small.
And yet I put others through it –
the cost is too great,
and we make excuses.
And what happens then?
We are all miserable.
All of us living out lies,
all of us in the wrong.
We are either wrong for
witholding permission
or we are wrong for
waiting for it.
#PermissionGranted
