Loving Me
Do we truly, sincerely love ourselves? If not, why not? Are we seeing ourselves as sinning mortals precariously teetering as we traverse the human tightrope of human life between birth and death? Maybe we need a fresh look at our eternal journey—and in particular, this earthly way-stop—with clearer eyes.
We all have challenges—physical, mental, emotional, moral—as we wrestle to demonstrate our highest sense of principle, Truth, and Love; that is an elemental part of the human experience, of this way-stop’s objective to learn and grow in spiritual knowledge. And along the way we pick up many sticky labels that seem to define us. Maybe it is time to peel them away—most certainly all of those that would seek to limit us—and get a better understanding of who we are at our core.
In the book “One Infinite Light,” we learn that an infinite, eternal God is expressed throughout all creation—which includes each of us. Where the problem arises is misunderstanding what makes up our identity. It isn’t comprised of what we do, what we own, whom we know—or even our personal appearance and human personality.
If the Bible is to be believed, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis I: 27 God) Are we accepting this definition of our being, or are we harboring old dogma that includes the erroneous concept that we are predetermined to be sinners? That view would keep us mired in a dark abyss of self-loathing. But if we accept that we are brilliant expressions of pure Light as declared by the above Bible verse, we will have a more accurate understanding of our being that will bring growth, transformation, and healing where we most need it. Defining ourselves from this standpoint makes any and all labels—and others’ false views of us—meaningless.
Our identity was established by Source at our inception as the transparent prism through which God is recognized. As we grow in understanding and love for all facets of God’s nature, and better comprehend that our identity is actually a full reflection of all that God is, we begin to comprehend the necessity of loving ourselves, our true, spiritual selfhood, regardless of the human snarls we have yet to unwind. It isn’t the human personality we are loving, it isn’t egotism or vanity, but a full realization of our innate oneness with everything good, and a full appreciation of our own unique, individual expression of Soul.
Do we truly, sincerely love ourselves? If not, why not? Are we seeing ourselves as sinning mortals precariously teetering as we traverse the human tightrope of human life between birth and death? Maybe we need a fresh look at our eternal journey—and in particular, this earthly way-stop—with clearer eyes.
We all have challenges—physical, mental, emotional, moral—as we wrestle to demonstrate our highest sense of principle, Truth, and Love; that is an elemental part of the human experience, of this way-stop’s objective to learn and grow in spiritual knowledge. And along the way we pick up many sticky labels that seem to define us. Maybe it is time to peel them away—most certainly all of those that would seek to limit us—and get a better understanding of who we are at our core.
In the book “One Infinite Light,” we learn that an infinite, eternal God is expressed throughout all creation—which includes each of us. Where the problem arises is misunderstanding what makes up our identity. It isn’t comprised of what we do, what we own, whom we know—or even our personal appearance and human personality.
If the Bible is to be believed, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis I: 27 God) Are we accepting this definition of our being, or are we harboring old dogma that includes the erroneous concept that we are predetermined to be sinners? That view would keep us mired in a dark abyss of self-loathing. But if we accept that we are brilliant expressions of pure Light as declared by the above Bible verse, we will have a more accurate understanding of our being that will bring growth, transformation, and healing where we most need it. Defining ourselves from this standpoint makes any and all labels—and others’ false views of us—meaningless.
Our identity was established by Source at our inception as the transparent prism through which God is recognized. As we grow in understanding and love for all facets of God’s nature, and better comprehend that our identity is actually a full reflection of all that God is, we begin to comprehend the necessity of loving ourselves, our true, spiritual selfhood, regardless of the human snarls we have yet to unwind. It isn’t the human personality we are loving, it isn’t egotism or vanity, but a full realization of our innate oneness with everything good, and a full appreciation of our own unique, individual expression of Soul.
