Divine Nature

One reason I like my church is because we believe there is more to life than just worshiping God.  We believe that this life is a learning experience as we ourselves prepare to become higher deities as we continue to learn and grow.  Having said this, I have been thinking this morning about how we fail to value ourselves as a being with great potential.  Even if you do not believe as I do, I feel that we, especially women, tend to forget our potential as we get so caught up in what is expected of us here and now.

A very simple representation of this is when many young girls, and even us grown ones, refer to ourselves as a princess.  There is nothing wrong with seeing yourself as royalty because that is what we are, but why sell yourself short?  Why settle for princess when you can and should be queen?  Is it because we fail to see ourselves as worthy of this title, or we lack the desire to work for it?  I think in my life it is a little of both.

A queen is someone who stands as an example; someone who is looked up to and I know there are many traits and talents I lack that make me feel inadequate and unable to describe myself in this manner.  However, that doesn’t mean I can’t work on it.  I feel that in today’s society especially we have been devalued and often times only viewed as sexual objects when in reality we are co-creators with God in making human life.  This means we should respect our bodies and ourselves as we come to realize our potential within the confines of this life.  I need to work on having a positive body image as long as I am doing all I can to treat myself and my body as well as I can so that I can live up to the divinity within me.  Why must we feel the need to tear ourselves down, when there is so much of the outside world doing that for us already?  Remember who you are: a queen; a deity in training.

(Yes, this post was meant for me…sometimes I hear it better when I talk to myself J).