I Am-ness

Enlighten me to see my personal worth from Your divine perspective.

One of the most intelligent men I have ever met was one with a stoop in his mid-thirties. When I asked him if it was a physical condition, he wryly remarked that he was used to stooping since he was a child so his body just adjusted itself to such a posture. When I asked him to stretch himself up, he was pliant enough to be straight-backed for a while before resuming his habitual posture.

The stoop was more reflective of his emotional state and attitudinal stance than his skeletal structure. Although remarkably gifted, his sense of self was so low because he carried the humiliations and belittling that was his daily fare from home as he was growing up, or should I say "growing down."

Our spiritual DNA is like that of God and when we begin to appreciate and own our true beingness, we come to what is our essential value as a person. True likeness with God lies in the level of being, rather than in the levels of doing or having.

As St. Paul puts it, "In Him we live, move and have our being." This necessitates unconditional acceptance of who and what we are, of equating our truest worth and value with who we are before God and what we are in our deepest core and not with what we do, accomplish, achieve or attain or what we have or possess or what others lead us to believe.

Affirmation: I appreciate the essence of who I am!