Sacred DNA

“We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.”

                             Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours

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Leaping through the snow and mud

Finn (the dog) does not wonder who he is

Or why he exists

He is fully in himself

Fully in the moment

And total ecstatic

Happy dog!

We on the other hand

Are not so sure

Happy human?

Not so much

We are always searching

For meaning, for purpose

But mostly we are searching for ourselves

But it seems the more we search for ourselves

The more confused we get

Perhaps the problem is that we look outside ourselves

For our definition, our value

We look to power, or perhaps wealth

Titles, and possessions

But what we look for is not out there, somewhere

It is within

It is to be found in our Sacred DNA

In the fact that we are Sacred Children

If we want to find ourselves

All we have to do is look at God

Love God

With the singleness of purpose

That happy dog has

Ball, ball

Stick stick

Only in our case?

God, God

Loving God we love ourselves

Loving God we love our neighbor

Loving God we can be content

Happy Human