Fear vs Trust: How to stop worrying about what others will think

If you feel called to create something, you'll likely also feel hesitation to share it. Accompanying thoughts might include: 

• "Who am I to share something like this?"
• "I'm nowhere near ready to have this out in the world."
• "What if ____ thinks I'm trying to be _____?"
• "I need more credentials so this can be legitimate."

Some of these might be helpful guides toward your next step, if you dive deeper into the question/statement. But chances are they're serving as a barrier to you actually letting your creation out into the world. 

My greatest "creations" (well, co-creations) are my children. Each of them grew inside of me, and I brought them into the world. As the due dates approached, I had many thoughts of inadequacy and fear in my mind -- not too different from the ones listed above. But I really had no choice but to trust that I would have what I needed. It's silly to think of letting any of the thoughts stop me from giving birth. They couldn't. 

My body knew what to do, to give them a place to grow and then to bring them into the world. I don't take credit for every bit of their existence. They grew the way they were designed to. They came with God-given abilities to grow, both physically and spiritually. 

What if our creations were the same way? No, we don't have actual labor launching them into the world...but what if the above thoughts and resistance were simply contractions, preparing us for birth? 

What if the ideas that come to us are co-creations that God has sent to grow within us and then become beings of their own that we nurture?

Doesn't that take some pressure off?

It does for me, because it allows me to trust that I already have everything I need in order to grow this into what it's already meant to be.

As children of God, we are meant to create. We are always creating, whether we realize it or not. It's us to determine whether we will create out of fear of what others will think, or out of trust that this is God's work and we will have everything we need.