What are we capable of?

I was in the home of someone who receives a gift subscription to the Sentinel. That week's issue had just arrived in the mail, and this reader was leafing through it. Coming to the first paragraph of an article, she said aloud, "But that's always been my problem. I can't do that. I just can't learn!"

We've all probably felt this way at one time or another. But what is it that would make us feel that we aren't good enough—or sufficiently capable of learning—to do something that is good, progressive, and helpful?

A conversation I once had with a friend was helpful when I doubted my own ability to face a particular challenge. At one point I said to this friend, who was a Christian Scientist, "I want to do the right thing."

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