WORTHINESS

 

I awoke to snow on the ground and it is still snowing. The weather people are predicting 2 to 3 inches today. I am sure it will be gone tomorrow but it is making its mark today.

I wouldn't have had to let the chickens out. Only the most adventurous ones will stick their beaks out. However, the dog needed to go out so I gave them the opportunity. They cocked their heads and looked out the door, none ventured out. That was two hours ago, I haven't seen a sign of a chicken wandering around.

I just stepped outside, the snow is just coming down hard enough to maintain an accumulation of about an inch. The ground is warm and it is above freezing [33.9], the wind is strong and gusty, it howls like a real Winter storm. Nature is just giving us a preview of our probable future a Month from now.

Those Slate Covered Juncos were not that far off!

As I was brushing my teeth this Morning the thought came through my mind, “I wonder if people feel they are getting what they deserve?” Every once in a while we hear that expression, 'we get what we deserve'. Is it possible folks feel they deserve the horror that is the dieing world?

Perhaps not consciously. Consciously we can be outraged at the horrors. But at some level, do we feel we deserve it? Have we been made to feel that unworthy? Knowing we are worthy is loving ourselves. I don't know about all you other folks, but I know my early training did not include the emphasis on my worthiness. In fact, unworthiness was impressed upon me, both as an individual and a member of the human race.

The fear that we are unworthy is passed down from generation to generation by loving parents that can't but help pass down their inner feelings. Religions use and promote the concept of an unworthy humanity so they can keep control. Only they can dispense salvation [worthiness].

I notice folks who are awakening often see, 'we don't deserve this'. We are entitled to better treatment, better government, a better educational system, a better medical system, we can go on and on. On realizing we are worthy, one of our first responses is to get angry. Our anger is part of our waking up but it creates a bump in the road. Part of our anger, is that we ever felt that we didn't deserve to be treated kindly and we can be just pissed off, that anybody would dismiss us and treat us badly.

We need to pass through this anger stage so we can make loving, creative decisions about the world we want. The perpetrators of the horrors are just a little crazier than we are, many of them are so separate they don't really feel love for themselves or anybody else. We will learn to forgive them, for in there lies our peace, we will have to isolate them for our protection. It is all about separation. Separation from each other and separation from our true nature, which is love.

It is very important that we know our worthiness! We create what we expect. We can't expect great and wonderful things if we don't know we are worthy.

We can't appreciate the love that emanates from each other or even feel the love that surrounds us that comes from Source, if we don't feel worthy. A wise person told me many years ago, she said, “First you will recognize that everyone is worthy and then you will see that no one person is competent”.

I am working on the first part. Learning that we are worthy is greatly facilitated by the conviction that everyone else is worthy. I will watch my mind and be alert to any thoughts, about another, that is otherwise. We are One. What we postulate in another rest in ourselves. Unworthiness is a painful illusion let us not wish it on each other.

Yes! We are deserving of Paradise!

Happy Friday everyone!

Love and Peace, Gregg