The Best Version of Ourselves
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The Best Version of OUrselves
The best version of ourselves is unforced and un-contrived and cannot abide forgery.
The best version of ourselves is one we’re given to be in freedom, not one we’ve formed out of necessity or survival.
The best version of ourselves is one we can be and not one we have to be.
The best version of ourselves is a gift and an opportunity, not an obligation.
The best version of ourselves is discovered – even as our counterfeit selves are uncovered and shed.
The best version of ourselves we receive as the Father would unveil it, not one that we seize as if we could secure it.
The best version of ourselves works toward wholeness but is absolutely assured in the meantime that, even short of perfection, it is still safe, free, and loved.
The best version of ourselves starts there: in safety, freedom and a sense of being worthy of love. (A less healthy version starts in doubt and a sense of scarcity).
The best version of ourselves knows contentment in a way that our counterfeit selves can never know.
The best versions of ourselves is found only when we have received radical forgiveness and acceptance…
The best version of ourselves is mysteriously both God’s gift to us, and our offering to God.
The best version of ourselves is “righteous,” as in rightly human – full of dignity and dignifying what God has made to dignify (everyone and all creation).
The best version of ourselves has at last – and it weeps with relief at the discovery – has at last learned how to receive love and love well.
The best version of ourselves is a New Creation, transcending the selves we created to survive, and transcending even the self that we dreamed of achieving.
The best version of ourselves is no longer a dream that haunts us, but now our inheritance, imaged in Christ and actualized by the Holy Spirit, at the delight of God the Father.
“Christians affirm a foundation of identity that is absolutely unique in the marketplace of spiritualities. Whether we realize it or not, our being is grounded in God’s love. The generative love if God was our origin. The embracing love of God sustains our existence. The inextinguishable love of God is the only hope for our fulfillment. Love is our identity and our calling, for we are Children of Love. Created from love, of love, and for love, our existence makes no sense apart from Divine love.” – David G. Benner in The Gift of Being Yourself