WORTHINESS

The old world conspired to keep the knowledge of our worth from us. Some religions taught that we are damned until saved. When religions became institutionalized they all taught that somehow they have the corner on salvation and one must follow their rules if you expect to realize it. Governments as well as religion created hierarchies that bestowed personal value according to your station. Parents and teachers, unwittingly, reinforced these ideas.

Of course it is all nonsense. WE ARE ALL EQUAL and WE ARE ALL EQUALLY WORTHY. As a philosophical statement, it is easy to accept. To realize it, requires one to open their eyes. Our culture has corrupted us to think that you must have money or celebrity or esteem from some group to have worth. But our real value is expressed in how we love each other. The happiness we bring. The light we create in each others eyes. There are no small things. You can't know the profoundness of the impact you had by smiling at that person in the grocery store. All the things that happen and don't happen between people, in the usual course of our days, have positive or negative consequences. Everything effects people either positively or negatively. There are no neutral events.

The more we realize our worthiness, the more we shine our light onto the world. It becomes easier to gladden the hearts of the people we interact with. Isn't that what we are here for? I know we forget and we have to forgive ourselves for our forgetting. Our sense of our own worth will grow as we learn to recognize the worth in others. When you validate others worthiness you become more aware of your own. I know I am being redundant, but it is such an important point. When the statement was made, "that we love our neighbors as ourselves" some people didn't get that that is what we do. If we don't love ourselves we can't love our neighbor either. It all, of course, comes back to our oneness.

That is enough for today.

Love and Peace, Gregg