Have you ever been part of the periphery of a gathering, club, sport, job, culture, etc.? If you have, you know the feeling that starts to creep through your body as you fully understand that you aren’t within the circle of influence.  That you are on the edge looking in by choice, because of fear, due to finances, ethnicity, or because you are new to the circle.  There is some reason you are not part of the influential group. I have lived most of my life on the periphery.  Much of that is by choice.  But some of it…