Friday, September 26, 2003
How God sees you
There is something about all of us that naturally wants to relate to others. Despite society's focus on physical attraction, this "something" deep within us yearns to love others, and be loved by others. Such a feeling, in its natural and pure form, is a powerful spiritual affection. It's a divine impulsion.
I look at Jesus' life and the love he expressed toward children, toward women, toward men. It came in many forms. Compassion, kindness, forbearance, nurturing, thoughtfulness, respect, caring, patience, forgiveness, correction, tenderness. The list is long. But the way he expressed the ultimate significance of love points us clearly to spirituality instead of biology.
As society gains ground in its struggle to place greater accent on the spiritual, it's likely this will lead to more satisfying answers regarding those thorny and often divisive issues on the biology side.
Jesus' example was to relate his own life increasingly to God. That enabled him to relate his life most successfully to his fellow humans. That's not a bad example for those today who wrestle with questions of sexuality.
Prayerfully affirm that your life is related more to God, divine Love, than to DNA. That opens the door to recognizing thoughtful and enduring solutions in how we relate to others. The more we see ourselves and others as spiritual, the less we'll be puzzled by, react to, be afraid of, or be doubtful about society's effort to sort its way through perplexing aspects of sexuality.
When our lives are premised on the view that we are fundamentally hard wired to biology instead of spirituality, there will be more confusion, more divisiveness, less progress Spiritward.
Perhaps you've wrestled with some of these issues. If so, increasing peace can come by beginning each day with a prayer that sees yourself and others less from a sexual perspective and more from a spiritual point of view. Think of those qualities Jesus expressed. After all, that's the way God sees you.
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