Perfect!
Not what you project of what it means
But how I feel
Not what society forces us to believe
But how I am
How you are
Just the way you are
No expectation about
what to be or to become
No strings attached
to your behavior or worthiness
Perfect
Just the way you are
Letter from Love
A beautiful prompt from Elizabeth Gilbert for writing a letter to ourselves, from Love asking: Dear Love, what will you have me know today about worthiness? Here it is:
Dear friend,
There is nothing you need doing or not doing to be worthy of love.
I know what you’re thinking.
You’ve always associated worthiness with action, doing something good for the planet, having a positive impact.
It’s really hard from you to hear it.
Maybe because deep down you don’t really believe it.
Maybe you refuse to hear it because you believe that part of you is good.
It is true.
The other part is also good.
Even she does absolutely nothing.
Even when she dreams of silly things.
When she sits down quietly, when she observes, when she listens, when she closes her eyes, when she smiles for no other reason that because she feels calm,
When she feels angry and confused and doesn’t know what to do.
When this is all too much for her little shoulders, when it is just not her responsibility.
When she judges, herself and others.
When she expects.
I know all these facets make you who you are, sometimes moon sometimes sun, sometimes shining sometimes burning, with good and bad bits and everything in between.
Perfect, just the way you are.
I know that there is still so much of you that you attach to that notion of worthiness.
That you are trying to let it go and that you are scared.
Scared that writing and sharing are also tangled in that very notion you are trying to escape.
Somehow it feels like the only way forward is the dissolution of your ego.
That if you can remember for long enough that you are not the one writing then it really doesn’t matter what happens on the other side of the sentence. Your job as the vehicle for that idea or those words is just to gently carry the message. Your job is not about how others will receive it. Let go of that to expect and what will unfold. Focus on what it feels like.
You know what love feels like.
You are loved.
You are love.
That is all there is.
