We are chock-full of loveability.

As human beings, we are always looking for reasons why others might consider us lovable. We hope to be good-looking, intelligent, caring, inquisitive, strong, interesting, and passionate - all traits we believe other people will find attractive.  However, our life experience teaches us that all but a few close friends - and perhaps family members - do NOT think we are all that special.  To them, we are simply run-of-the-mill people, potentially replaceable by a million others.  However, this discovery need not make us feel discouraged.  For the seeming rejection we experience from others is precisely the goad we need to seek for a deeper acceptance.  When we do this, we find a divine love that wells up from the center of our being and holds our awareness in Its warm embrace.  As this occurs, we realize that the question is not "Am I lovable?"  Rather it is as though the Divine playfully exclaims: "How WOULDN'T you be lovable!"  Here we realize that we are chock-full of worth, like a tree plastered with so much snow it can't hold any more of the delicious crystalline loveliness.  In fact, what we often think of as the absence of divine love is actually a playful situation in which God pushes us away into the world, asking: "How WOULDN'T you be lovable in THIS situation!" or "How WOULDN'T you be lovable in THAT event!"  In other words, our innate divinity is so much an assumed reality that we have to be pushed away from our Source, causing us momentarily to feel  stuck in a land of doubts and a multitude of  life-challenges.  Usually, the "WOULDN'T" is the only part of the "phrase" we hear, leading us to believe that we are not at all lovable. But if we persevere with this dryness of affection, we begin to develop the faith necessary to understand that our loveability is an ASSUMED reality.  Indeed, we have to be pushed away from this truth in order to be able to affirm it, like holding a mirror AWAY from our face as a means of beholding our appearance more clearly than if it were shoved up against our nose. Thus, seeming indifference on the part of God is actually an intense affirmation of our divine worth.  How mind- blowing is that!

Photo: Subalpine Fir full of snow; Medicine Bow Mountains, CO; March 2, 2013