Finding our True Selves

I do not think that violence and negativity are natural to us. I believe you are made for love, that your natural abiding place is love, and that you in fact are love. Your absolute foundation is communion with God and others. This is the "deepest me" to which you must return before you act. From this foundation, you know you must act and you will act, but now from a place of positive, loving energy. You must start from a deep place of "yes."

                                                                                                                Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation 10.19.15

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we come from love (God)

we were created to love (love one another)

not just others

but also ourselves

no matter how blurred the divine image

this is who we are

when we hate

when we judge, and exclude

we are not ourselves

and we violate

our very being

we become people of “no”

(just look at congress)

we say “no” to Sacred

“no” to ourselves

“no” to others

our hearts and souls wither

we bury our true selves,

and compassion and giving

and so much that is good,

dies

it is time to find our way

to intimacy,

with God and ourselves,

that we might become

the people of

yes