You Can Love Your Life Now!

I find that I am doing things more deliberately and purposefully.  While the pace of doing only one thing at a time seems “slow” in our multitasking society, I am enjoying it.

Today’s lesson is HUMILITY!

And ever since I read it, I have been in resistance to it.  This is mostly based on my concept of God.

The book’s humility asks you to be a humble servant and allow God to do the work through you, as if you are two separate entities.

My concept of God, however is based on the fact that I AM God, at least a part of God, and everything I do is so that God can Experience it and not merely know it.  If I seek to be more Divine (“Divinity” comes a lot more easily for me than “God”), I need only to look inside myself and ask for that higher guidance, which is ultimately my own “little voice inside my head.”  But that is Divinity too.

So describing the action of “humbling myself before” an entity separate from myself in fear of a Wrathful reproach, is not my Truth.  It never made sense to me that God would be “Jealous” and “Punishing.”

It DOES make sense to me that the Divine is Pure Love and is experiencing itself through all of the forms it has created.  It DOES make sense that the Divine sees it’s own image in every single thing, living or not and does not have “levels” of Divinity with some things or people or races or whatever other divisions you can think of–that is to say that the Divine did not “choose” certain people or creatures over others and say, “You are my most sacred creation.”  In my definition of the Ultimate Divine, It says that about every single thing in the Universe.

So this bowing down sort of humility, really didn’t work for me at all.

My definition of God is not fear-based, but Love based, guided by pure acceptance (Love) for everything I choose to do, not by threatening reprimands if I don’t do something a certain way.

My definition of God does not have me kneeling as a lesser, but Co-Creating as an Equal.  If I am bowing to you, I am bowing to the Divinity within you, that Divinity that IS you!

Even the prayer offered by the book, wasn’t worded in a way that spoke to me, so I changed it.

However, the activity that went with it worked well for me–essentially giving all of the things I have been doing “unsuccessfully” up to God.  For me that translated into letting go of the outcome and releasing the need to be in control of everything.  I am Trusting that everything will work out for my highest good (that is, the highest good of the Universe, which are the same thing.)

This lesson, as it is, is probably really effective for someone who avidly practices religion, it just didn’t speak to me.  I had a lot of resistance, so I changed it to suit my purposes, yet still found appreciation in the lesson.

Instead of Humility, I would call it “The Gift of Being Open to Creative Expression and Allowing It to Flow Through You.”  Perhaps this is the reason I didn’t get naming rights!

I choose my actions with deliberate purposefulness Today.

Debbie Ford’s 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse

www.DailyOM.com

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1. Sandra Says:
   May 14th, 2010 at 3:16 pm

   I’d be interested in a face-to-face discussion on this one. I don’t see humility that way at all!