This shyness continued into college. One day the question occurred to me: Is life shy?
The thought startled me! Think of the leaves bursting out in the springtime, the bird singing at dawn, the sheer number of different forms of life, all expressing the wideness and scope of divine Life. There's nothing shy about it. This Life is everywhere and attention-grabbing. So, if my creator isn't shy about all the life that needs expressing, I don't need to be either.
I realized that if I wanted to overcome fear and shyness, I would have to put this law of Life into practice. Shyness, fear, and loneliness were hindering me from living my life as Life, God wanted me to live it. I had to refuse to let fear and shyness control me. Instead, I decided to live how Life saw me.