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“I see myself as_______ but my mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.”
Holiness is one of those words that is incredibly loaded in my opinion. When I think of holiness I think of the stained-glass windows portraying saints holding lambs and crosses with halos around their head. I do not think of myself.
As humans it is so easy to get caught in what we’ve done as a definition of who we are. The two are actually separate.
A parenting book I read when my kids were little said “it is not that your son is a bad boy, it is that his behavior needs some tweaking.” The action is separate from the person.
To me that is easier said than done. I can think of hundreds of things I’ve done that would definitely pull me out of the holy category. I have lied countless times, I had two affairs while I was married, I don’t think porn (in moderation) is bad, I currently live with my partner and we are not married…I could go on and on. We all could.
How can God even imply that we are holy? I guess as it says in the ACIM lesson today, we are holy because we are a part of God.
When I read that I still feel pangs of unworthiness. So often I get flashbacks of stupid things I’ve done that I wish I could take back but I can’t. I have to chalk it up to a lesson learned and do my best to make better choices in the future.
Yesterday I was hanging out with my kids and looked at them thinking — even if they look nothing like me, they are still part of me. Nothing can genetically change that. They are my blood. Period. Irrefutable science.
What if holiness is not something that we earn but something that we just are? We just are in spite of how we act because like it or not we are a slice of our creator. Holiness is just part of being the “created” being that we are.
What does holiness mean outside of a Catholic context I have no idea yet, I know ACIM will teach us. I’m excited to see how holiness is a stand-alone quality from our actions as I always thought the two had to go together.
Lets find out…
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