oooohhhhh my!! so many FB posts trigger me!! I'm constantly staggered by the sheer number of people who insist society is right to refuse to allow people to live their lives as they see fit.
How are you right to decide about other peoples choices? How are you right because it makes you uncomfortable, because it is unknown to you? How are you right because it scares you?
How is hanging onto the known REALLY keeping you safe? How is denying yourself your infinite possibility a better answer?
We are making SO many choices today based in FEAR. Because of what might potentially happen in the future and screwing ourselves in the present!
We spend so much time and energy trying to figure out how to make our kids safe when the crazy and seemingly paradoxical truth is.....we need to spend that time and energy LOVING our kids. THEN guess what? They wouldn't be killing other kids!!!
I've struggled for long time trying to make sense of a truth I've been told, and a belief I've tried to hold onto, because it didn't pan out, it seemed to fall apart. It's this:
We all are born with the innate ability to love ourselves.
Why is this a truth? Because we ARE love. And a newborn baby is the purest essence there is.
So, what happens. And this is where I've struggled: If we have that innate ability, why do so many of us NOT love ourselves? What is wrong with us? Well, we spend our formative years being taught just the opposite. We are taught it's not ok to make mistakes, to give up our youthful exuberance for behaving, that it's NOT ok to just be us. Right down to adults deciding that because you have certain genitalia, you have to look, dress and act a certain way.
Even the religions that claim to teach the goodness of people, that you are part of God, that God forgives, send you down the wrong path by also instilling the belief that we are all sinners. After all, His own Son died for our sins. I don't usually preach, but since this fits what I am talking about, I'll say it. Jesus didn't die FOR our sins. He died BECAUSE of our sins. WE were already saved. He was just living the ultimate example of how you HAVE to allow others to believe and live as they will. He gave his body's life for this principle. And we won't even give up our own opinions for it.
How are you right to decide about other peoples choices? How are you right because it makes you uncomfortable, because it is unknown to you? How are you right because it scares you?
How is hanging onto the known REALLY keeping you safe? How is denying yourself your infinite possibility a better answer?
We are making SO many choices today based in FEAR. Because of what might potentially happen in the future and screwing ourselves in the present!
We spend so much time and energy trying to figure out how to make our kids safe when the crazy and seemingly paradoxical truth is.....we need to spend that time and energy LOVING our kids. THEN guess what? They wouldn't be killing other kids!!!
I've struggled for long time trying to make sense of a truth I've been told, and a belief I've tried to hold onto, because it didn't pan out, it seemed to fall apart. It's this:
We all are born with the innate ability to love ourselves.
Why is this a truth? Because we ARE love. And a newborn baby is the purest essence there is.
So, what happens. And this is where I've struggled: If we have that innate ability, why do so many of us NOT love ourselves? What is wrong with us? Well, we spend our formative years being taught just the opposite. We are taught it's not ok to make mistakes, to give up our youthful exuberance for behaving, that it's NOT ok to just be us. Right down to adults deciding that because you have certain genitalia, you have to look, dress and act a certain way.
Even the religions that claim to teach the goodness of people, that you are part of God, that God forgives, send you down the wrong path by also instilling the belief that we are all sinners. After all, His own Son died for our sins. I don't usually preach, but since this fits what I am talking about, I'll say it. Jesus didn't die FOR our sins. He died BECAUSE of our sins. WE were already saved. He was just living the ultimate example of how you HAVE to allow others to believe and live as they will. He gave his body's life for this principle. And we won't even give up our own opinions for it.
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