The glory of my Father is my own.
“Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility. Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us.”
This was a difficult lesson for me because false humility and humbleness were traits I picked up as a child in order to blend into the crowd and be invisible. Before I learned false humility, I was a shining bright star. I was one of those kids that could accomplish anything. I aced every test. I knew the answer to every question. I had an active mind and I loved being constantly challenged … except there was no around to challenge me. I was mostly bored in the classroom but then I discovered that treasure house that is the library. I found my freedom and happiness in books. Books gave me the challenge I needed, and as a result … whole worlds began opening up to me. The universe opened up before me… and the more I read, the more disenchanted I became by what I was learning in the classrooms with tests, battle dates, and memorization.
I quickly learned that no one likes a know-it-all. Even the teachers didn’t know what to do with me and my gifts. They would simply say “Now Lisa, I know you know the answer, let someone else have their turn now.” And 9 times out of 10, no one would know the answer and the teacher would have to explain everything like we were all in kindergarten.
And the strange thing was that no one was really interested in learning. All my classmates were constantly slumped in a chair, not listening, waiting for the bell to ring. I could never figure out why a teacher would continue to teach to a class that no one was interested in. What’s the point?
Mostly I was baffled that the teachers were always trying to slow me down, to give the other kids a chance to learn. That never made any sense to me. Why do I have to slow down so someone else can learn?? I used to always wonder why we had to find a “group speed” – instead of simply allowing the fast kids to be fast and the slow kids to be slow. Instead it was always a constant struggle to slow down the fast kids and speed up the slow kids.
Such is life.
Everyone is always molding themselves into the group.
Around the 3rd or 4th grade, my active mind became a problem for me and instead of being praised for good work, I was teased and ridiculed. So I decided rather than shine bright, I would become ordinary. I let my grade slide and suddenly I had tons of friends, everyone loved me! – but in my heart it felt terrible because I knew I was compromising. I knew I was not being my authentic self. I knew I was capable of great things and instead I was acting sloppy & dumb so people would like me. I knew I had an A+ mind but instead I let myself slide and become an average student. The reward for this behavior was that I was well-liked by all.
Welcome to the compromise of the world.
Today’s lesson is asking me is to find my own gifts, and be thankful for them, and to not hide them under a bushel anymore. To put these gifts on a candlestick and let them glorify my Father.
Let your light shine before men!
Be great in God. Be creative. Be bright. Stand in a class all by yourself.
Don’t let slow people slow you down and don’t let fast people try to speed you up. You have your own gifts and you should not march to anyone else’s drum. Make your own music. You determine the speed at which you travel and if other people have a problem with it, well, that is their problem … not your problem.
You be yourself.
Remember your promise to Jesus to be a bright light in the world.
There’s no one else in the world like you! You’re brilliant and magnificent.
“Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by false humility.”
There is a saying “It’s lonely at the top” and that’s definitely true … UNTIL … you realize you have mighty companions with you. You’re never alone.
This journey is about beginning to interact with the invisible forces that are with you and around you. This path is about learning what your Gifts are, and recognizing the light that is in you.
It is about knowing God and knowing yourself as God created you.
Today’s lesson is about HONORING that light, HONORING your gifts, HONORING God, HONORING yourself, and really coming fully into your own genius & brilliance.
It doesn’t do you (or the world) to play small or dumb.
“We thank you Father, for the light that shines forever in us. And we honor it, because you share it with us. We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves.”
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Good morning, Dear One, your talk on Unity was OFF- THE- CHARTS!!!!!!!!!!and what lite my mind up was this…’NEVER CORRECT A BROTHER” . ONE MORE TIME, JAYME.. I AM ONLY TEACHING ME HERE…JAYME
NEVER CORRECT A BROTHER.
AGAIN
NEVER CORRECT A BROTHER.
AGAIN
NEVER CORRECT A BROTHER.
In that was all healing accomplished as I was flooded with every correction I had ever made… and healed as I was willing to stand in it.
I am here not to hide my light under a bushel… or the blankets,or under false pretense or under a fat body, or behind closed doors and one other place that I hid and tried to be small is I lived in the world with a grin pasted to my face, all funny and loud. wow, this minute I see the falsity of that …. I was Rambo, the Terminator beneath that role, the actor, going for the academy award for best leader actress in her film’ DYING SOUL IN PARADISE’, I could not see my dying soul or that I was already in paradise.. wow..Beneath that
smiling facade, silently waiting for the next hostage i would take to release me from the burden of growing up, being responsible, showing up in relationship with every one.. not just the ones I deemed ‘acceptable’. I love what you said about false humility..this is it … I would be with you until you pissed me off,or would not do this my way or I was frightened or I was lost, and then in the interest of survival… I would end it ..gone.. poof.. only smoke from my own misery left for you to stand in.. I did that over and over and over.. left brothers when they needed me most..It was here on G4G that I have learned Love is about staying,no matter what it looks like or sounds like… stand here and be healed..you have taught me that Jesus.. i am so happy today, over the moon joyous with the new me and the new light and the new path I have received today.. see that’s it , all this way always here, I just wasn’ t willing to be BRIGHT , BEAUTIFUL, NO GORGEOUS, HAPPY, UNLIMITED, FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER, COMMITTED, RESPONSIBLE , ALL LOVING, ALL POWERFUL AND SIMPLY GRAND. I ACCEPT.
THANKYOU
JAYME
I LOVE YOU
I AM ONE WITH YOU.
Lisa,
Thank you. This is perfect. Another good blogger once said:
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”