And it’s coming to terms with those aspects of who we are that aren’t as pretty as others - the aspects we like to deny. However, it’s only after coming to terms with them and our capacity for denial that we reach a comfort level with the entirety of ‘us’.

A humorous example from my life: there are just some foods that I can’t eat and talk at the same time. About the time I’m asked a question while chewing on one of the ‘forbidden-to-eat-and-talk foods’, and as I’m about to announce, “I can’t eat this food and talk at the same time” - tiny particles of the ‘forbidden-to-eat-and-talk food’ flies from my lips.

And it doesn’t go unnoticed!

I have come to a point in life that when this happens, I simply announce, “what can I say - I’m a slop at heart!” And everyone laughs while I explain my dilemna of trying to talk with a mouthful of certain foods, etc., etc.!

I certainly don’t mean to make light of what it takes to get to the point in life where not only do we speak with authority - but those who hear us recognize our authority. And respect us for it.

It’s never about how loud we speak. It’s never about the size of the words we use or the way we tilt our head or hold our hands.

It’s about coming to that self-comfort level that anything we say, we know to be true.

At that point, others come to know it as well!

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