Dear fellow travelers,
Thank you for being on this thing called life with me, with its many
adventures and challenges.
This past week I had a call from a beautiful gal who was having a
difficult time over the fact that someone had just accepted her with open arms,
without her doing anything to "earn" the acceptance.
Now you may be saying "what????" but thinking about it at a deeper level,
how many people do you know, or maybe even you may think now and then, that you
have to prove your self in some way that you are good enough for a certain job,
a certain organization, a certain assignment, a certain group of people and on
and on it could go?
I admit at times I have thought, I cant do that!, and the bottom line was,
because.........
Yes that right! Every now and then I have to adjust my own
thinking!!
And I have over the years worked with many people who started out with one
"want" or " issue" and when my questions continued, the belief behind it
all came out to be because I cant have it, or I'm afraid I wont or cant achieve
it was because I'm not good enough.
People do all kinds of things for that outside approval, to feel good, about
themselves: that they are worthy, to be accepted. --the big
houses, expensive cars, and all the up to date everything.
And believe me, I love the great cars and clothes and all the dressings
but I need to just be sure I am loving it because I really like it, not for
that outside praise or the outside saying, that I have arrived.
Let's go a step further...we don't need to do anything to prove our worth,
our value to anyone!!!
We are pre-approved, just by our being here, on this great planet!
We were created as the Bible states, "in the image and likeness of God".
and God encompass all, and if this is so, and I believe it is.
We need not do anything!!! we are by our "being" here, proof enough that we
are totally completely accepted. We don't need outside approval. Its an inside
job.
No thing or nothing we may have heard from our past, in our formative
years need to be our tapes now. I suggest we erase them.
To go back to this beautiful gal, and maybe someone you know also. How is
she possibly going to please her worth to 9 billion people on earth? everyone
has there own likes and dislikes from their own experiences, isn't it much easier just to
please the one person that is with us all the time? ourselve!
Again, we are pre-approved-, by our life itself. and are only job as far as I
can surmise is to live life as we choose, as long as we are not harming another
or the environment.
Just embrace all those open arms with a grateful thank you , without
question.
We, all, are truly worthy, and capable, without a doubt of receiving, all
good things.
Maybe a little preachy but
Just pondering on Worth
Rev Linda Patton ENTC
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