Self Acceptance

So many people have difficulty accepting themselves these days, it seems to me.

Hatred of self has to dissolve if acceptance of self is to be realized.

Since acceptance is an agreement, or a covenant of freedom that liberates one, there is little room for abnegation and worthlessness, hatred and lingering residue that keeps one from the "abundant life" that Jesus the Christ, among others, spoke of often.

Wellness requires that people know fully that the Creator hovers over and within self more than a mother over her hens, for example. Inner morphing happend when one know he or she is loved. The song with the lyrics telling that one is nobody until someone loves you heps to appreciate the tremendous love of the Maker. Nourishing that rapport is critical.

Life changes profoundly when one decides and chooses to accept Jesus, among others we love and live with as companions on the trail. Loving relationships are commitments that forge freindship with the Maker, in turn.

That's why the great commanment to love God with all one's heart, mind and soul, and, your neighbor as yourself is key to one's wellness and happiness in life today.

Early on in life I was driven to do more with high expectations. I needed to be in touch with that ache, talk to it, feel the pain, and by the grace of God be healed of such an obstacles that can burn one out. Counselors helped rid that. And, ultimately the Divine Therapist dissolved it.

Little did I do that pleased significant teachers and parents.

Surrendering means accepting the life, the mess, and the moments we have for consolation and desolation, and, moving on once all of the doubts, fears, defeats and disappointments are dissolved.

Often we build our interior and spiritual life on emphasizing our love for God over God's love for us. Pelagianism, saving one's self, was borne of this faulty thinking. We cannot save ourselves without the Savior God.

God's enveloping love for each of us paves the way for our own love of God and neighbor.

God knows neighborliness is a need today on our streets, in our homes, but first in one's own heart.