Today’s blog entry is by student Rabbi Lisa Kingston. Lisa was our rabbinic intern this Summer. She is a fourth year student at Hebrew Union College, New York. She delivers her Senior Sermon next Thursday morning during the morning service at the college.
I think one of the largest demons that can consume us is self-doubt. A friend of mine is studying to be a psychologist and she told me of an interesting conference she recently attended. Instead of wearing traditional nametags, each person in the room was asked to write their biggest fear and wear it upon their chest. One might assume participants would share silly things like a fear of heights or spiders, but people took the exercise to heart and shared what really unnerved them. They shared fears of failure, fears of being a fraud, fears of not being able to help people in the way they hoped, fears of letting down family members, and fears that they were not worthy of their success. We all share fears like these even when we appear confident and successful.
