Remember Who You Are

 In the beginning, he said,

When God created you out of formless substance,

God pulled you to God’s chest and

Whispered into your being who you were created to be.

When you came into this world,

The world immediately began trying to make you into its image.

Your life’s work is to live into God’s image—

Into who God made you to be.

You must remember who you are.

 

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Don’t forget, he said,

That in in your quest for meaning,

You ARE the meaning.

You are an expression of God’s love

By simply being.

There is an innocence underneath the world’s conditioning—

A raw nature that exists regardless of what everyone tries to make you.

Squirrels are squirrelling.

Trees are treeing.

Dogs are dogging.

Cats are catting.

Deanna is Deannaing.

Joe The Counselor is Joeing.

We’re all, on some level, doing what we were created to do,

And being who we were created to be.  

We must remember who we are.

 

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Simba, he said,

*In his best James Earl Jones voice*

Remember who you are.

 

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Dear God: Help us to remember who we are as we remember who You are. Amen.