There are many of us in this world who have come from so-called "broken" families, have experienced bias and discrimination based on someone else's opinion or judgment, out of their own false sense of "brokenness." We have all experienced an erroneous sense of unworthiness, not-enoughness and inadequacy - a feeling that something was missing, damaged and broken about us.
How did that happen? How did we, as perfect expressions of God invest so much of our energy into thinking we were so badly damaged that we didn't even deserve the infinite inexhaustible love of the divine? How did we become so hypnotized by the illusion of separation that we fell asleep to a love that is so unconditional and ever available, it would bring us to our knees in humility, awe and gratitude if we just remembered who we really were?
We were brainwashed. Not out of some conspiracy thing. No, the Universe is only conspiring for us to wake up and accept our birthright of beauty and wholeness. When I say brainwashed, it's not in an attempt to blame anyone, or even blame ourselves, but it happened. We misperceived something at some point in our lives, like maybe our parents divorcing, and deciding it was our fault, or some snotty nosed kid (who was going through the same thing we were experiencing) decided to bully us and tell us we were crap, and we believed it. We compared our insides to someone else's outsides that might've been looking pretty good that day, and deemed ourselves unworthy.
Maybe it was even deeper than that, maybe we were created perfectly as a lesbian, gay or a transgendered person, and because the world had their own prejudices and fears, projected their brainwashing onto us that we were the bottom feeders of the earth, instead of magnificent expressions of the divine, made in the image and likeness of God.
Or maybe we were molested or raped, and internalized that event to mean we were forever broken and damaged.
The point I'm trying to make is that we were not created with these beliefs about ourselves, but we were susceptible to them, and we bought them. So, how do we "unbuy" them and "be ye transformed by the renewing of our minds," as it states in scripture?
How do we embody the absolute truth that I know about you and about myself, that we are perfect just as we are -uniquely magnificent in every way?
There's no magic beloveds. We must began the chipping away of the illusion process. In cooperating with the great law of life to restore us to who were created to be, we are being called to make a commitment to our spiritual practice of forgiveness, contemplation of the nature of the universe and opening up to our oneness with it through daily prayer and meditation, being of service to others. Then let go and allow joy to express through to and through you.
I want to leave you with this. No matter what you've done or haven't done, no matter how you look, what you think, whether you've suffered from addictions, no matter what your sexual preferences or lifestyles may be, there is absolutely "Nothin' broken here," and nothing can separate you from the love of God. You're enough beloved.
"For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God." _Romans 8:38
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