eternal DNA

If you can’t honor the Divine Indwelling—the presence of the Holy Spirit—within yourself, how could you see it in anybody else? You can’t. Like knows like. All awareness, enlightenment, aliveness, and transformation begins with recognizing that your own eternal DNA is both divine and unearned; only then are you ready to see it everywhere else too. Soul recognizes soul.

                                                                                                     Richard Rohr

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Perhaps the biggest problem we have

Is that we don’t know who we are

I remember, when as a youth, I would leave the house

For a “night out”

Invariably the words came

There was no escape

“remember who you are”

So who are we?

We are those created in the image of God

(God knows the image maybe blurred, but that is who we are)

We are those who carry divine DNA

We are those who carry the likeness of the Sacred

We are Sacred sons

Sacred daughters

We are the children of God

We are flesh inspirited

We are empowered

Forgiven

Guided

Embraced

We are loved

Imagine for a moment

Walking through your day

Really believing that

(for me it is a stretch, as my old negative mental scripts are so strong)

How would that change what goes through your mind?

How would that change your behavior?

How would that change the way you see others?

In those moments when I accept who I am

Then my mind calms

Then I no longer need to toil at the task of proving myself

Then I can see the Sacred Presence in the person in front of me

Then I can live love

And

Then the refrain echoes through my soul

Child of God

Child of God

Child of God

That is who I am