Our Original Self

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.

Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you,

so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

                                                                        Paulo Coelho

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We are Sacred Children

All of us

All of us carry Sacred DNA

And all of us bear the image of the One who birthed us

The ones who birthed us in the flesh

And the One who birthed us spiritually

For we are flesh and Spirit

Merged together

Earth bound

Heaven bound

Sadly the image can be blurred

Our bodies carrying the scars of what we have experienced

Our failures, our fears

Our excesses

Out obsessions and addictions

Sometimes the mother/father is barely visible

In the flesh we carry

I believe I have my mother’s eyes

My father’s smile

I have that missing tooth, that crooked back

They gave me

And yet I no longer look like them

The world has changed me

Sometimes the Sacred is barely visible as well

I am permeated with the Spirit

With love

And my life should be the natural expression of that presence (Dallas Willard)

And yet it is not

I have learned too many earthly things

I have learned to hate, to fear

I have learned to hunger for power and wealth

I have learned not to trust

I have learned to protect

And thus the Spirit calls me back

Back to compassion

Back to joy

Back to generosity

Back to kindness

It calls me to let go of all the things I have learned

All of the things I have picked up and chosen to carry

That are not God

It may be true that God makes us into new creations

But that new creation may be nothing more

And nothing less

Than our original self

And so the Spirit calls all of us

One by one

By name

Come! Be who you are!