Tonight I was honored to experience a portion of Metropolitan Community Church's People of African Decent Conference opening worship service. The theme is "Loving yourself into Liberation".
The theme reminded me of a reflection a good friend shared with me some months back that our primary job in this life is to love ourselves. Because if we love ourselves we will take care of ourselves by living as healthy as we can and doing things that will make our lives in this world better, then we will be able to truly love others and live a life that is reflective of our love.
I believe that many of the issues we face in our lives with others stems from us not really loving ourselves. When we don't love ourselves we can't love others and often resent those in ourlives who have accepted themselves and are loving themselves as they are.
Many of us have confused selfishness and self-interest with self love and have found ourselves lost. It can be a scary thing, but if we allow ourselves to pull back the veil and explore who we are so that we can fall in love with ourselves, I do believe we can love ourselves into liberation. Personal liberation and collective liberation.
JDR
Love~Live~Life
The theme reminded me of a reflection a good friend shared with me some months back that our primary job in this life is to love ourselves. Because if we love ourselves we will take care of ourselves by living as healthy as we can and doing things that will make our lives in this world better, then we will be able to truly love others and live a life that is reflective of our love.
I believe that many of the issues we face in our lives with others stems from us not really loving ourselves. When we don't love ourselves we can't love others and often resent those in ourlives who have accepted themselves and are loving themselves as they are.
Many of us have confused selfishness and self-interest with self love and have found ourselves lost. It can be a scary thing, but if we allow ourselves to pull back the veil and explore who we are so that we can fall in love with ourselves, I do believe we can love ourselves into liberation. Personal liberation and collective liberation.
JDR
Love~Live~Life
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