Life really is about doing the word of God.
We can read it till our face falls off...read and understand, then quote, preach and teach. If we are not actually loving our enemy, or giving half of our last dollar for the benefit of another, then all that knowledge represents is our own self pounding ego's toy drum.
I do not doubt that refusal to accept our self just as we are...and love us anyway...is our greatest (and gravest) block to feeling the love of God.
Affirmations, as such, give me the willies. Just repeating "I am a beloved child of God" seems to me to be trying to make something true that already is true. We need to go forward showing it. I mean, we cannot show that we are a beloved child of God while we're spitting in another's eye, now can we?
When we get caught up in sitting in judgment of how honest, good and pure our efforts are, or are not, that is the measure of our growth...and, who's kidding whom, it ain't spiritual.
Our lesson to learn is that however we do...are doing...the word of God is close enough to perfect for God. But not us???
Thank you.
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