Original Blessing

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.”

                                                                                       Marianne Williamson

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Forget original sin

Bullshit

Really

God created the world and it was

Good

And when angels sang over Bethlehem

It was to those with whom God

Was “well pleased”.

Oh we can be ugly

Sinful if you like

Yes we give into fear

Yes, we get selfish

Yes we hate, and misuse power

Yes

Yes

Yes

But that is not our nature

It may be “who we are”

But it is also not who we are

For me faith is a matter of unlearning so many things

That do not work

Self loathing

Fear

The need to win (be number one)

Some pretty profound selfishness (me first)

A desperate need to be liked and admired

I must unlearn so that I can learn

Not for the first time

That I am loved by God

That I do not have to fear

That winning isn’t everything

And that I gain more by giving then by grasping

And that the only person I need to really please

Is God (and perhaps myself)

I am

A sacred child

I am

Loved by the Sacred

I am