believe in ourselves - especially if we know and believe that we are the children of a loving Father God - sometimes our way leads us into thickets and forests, and we have to cut our way through to stay on the road...Sometimes the road is full of potholes and we fall into them as we go along, and then have to scramble out...So many things happen to us every day...sometimes we are strong enough to combat them and come up on top, sometimes we fall, sometimes we are reduced to crawling, and sometimes the weight lands on us and prevents us from getting up at all. Through all of this, though it is difficult to do so, we must remember that these are only tests, and it's okay to fail the tests, because they leave holes in us through which the Light can come in and fix us, and after a bit we realize well, we're really okay...
Sometimes, a friend or well-wisher, or a stranger you may have lent a shoulder or a hand to, helps and in the words of e.e. cummings,
"reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
I think, after we realize we're okay (referring to the first para) we need to then also believe what e.e. cummings has to say...that "something deep inside us is valuable....."