You are Divine

When our life is too disconnected and chaotic, too painful, too meaningless, too confusing to bear God’s image with dignity and respect, why wouldn’t we self-medicate? Why would we even care to try? The distortions caused by bad habits or forgetful living cause us to lose touch with our intrinsic value as children of God. Our conscious contact with God and our capacity to love others as a result of actively working to “bear God’s image” on a daily basis is awesome, but what about when we cannot bear up under the stress of daily living?

Often we are numb, isolated, lonely and ashamed. Or sometimes we are just really, really mad. Maybe, most likely, we do not even much care one way or another about our freaking core values. But here is a tough truth: our body cares, our mind cares, our heart cares. It is the dis-ease of disconnection from God, ourselves and others that does not care. Our body, mind and spirit are in open rebellion against a disease (think of sickness as the opposite of bearing God’s image) that kills and destroys our creativity, our joy, and our love for one another. Our being just knows that it is created for more than isolation, suffering, compulsions and forgetfulness of God.

Humankind was created as God’s reflection: in the divine image God created them; female and male, God made them...God looked at all of this creation and proclaimed that this was good - very good.

~ Genesis 1:27, 31

If you have forgotten - here is your wake up call! Remember? You are divine!