I'm mulling over this little tidbit today:
I hear that Rabbi Akiva is said to have uttered something like the following.
"In the time to come, God will not ask me, Why were you not more like Moses or Elijah or Jeremiah?' In the time to come, God will ask me, 'Why were you not more Akiva?'"
One of the most liberating questions anyone ever put to me was the following: "Why don't you stop trying to be a pastor whose name happens to be Steve? Why don't you put your energies into being Steve, who happens to be a pastor?" (Thank you, Brant)
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