"Please help me," I prayed. "Please change me. I know You can do it because I've seen You make drunkards sober and turn thieves into honest men. Please take away these inferiority feelings that are holding me back. Take away this awful shyness and self-consciousness. Let me see myself, not as a scared rabbit, but as someone who can do great things in my life because You are with me, giving me the strength and confidence I need."
~Rev.Norman Vincent Peale,
'Positive Imaging' ©1982
'Positive Imaging' ©1982
Nice prayer, yes shyness can be awful! Along these lines there is a spiritual program of recovery, Social Anxiety Anonymous, that adapts the 12 Steps to shyness problems.
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