Gravity and love
Is there a narrative you were told or taught about your own goodness? Were you raised to believe you were fundamentally good, healthy, worthy and complete? Or that you were incomplete, unworthy, unhealthy and bad?
"All my little life I've been conditioned to believe I'm a broken vessel Riddled with disease. I'm trying out a new song I don't know how to sing: Maybe we are worthy — Everyone and everything. It goes like: I believe that I am worthy. I believe that I am good. I believe that I was made Exactly how Creator could."
I've started season 4 of the Liturgists podcast; the first episode of the new season is "Am I impure?" It's interviews and commentary on the impact of the purity movement that swept through the North American Christian church in the late nineties. It's difficult to illuminate the stated and unstated scripts that are planted in one's mind. I suspect there's a few wedged deep in my head about impurity and unworthiness that are challenging to rewrite.
One thing I was won…
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