What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Hmmmm. No, that's not what I was attempting to say, and that theme of loving ourselves is not really a big theme in my mind. In fact, the idea of "loving myself" has often been exploited and co-opted by narcissistic tendencies.
If I can simplify what I'm saying, its that historically, and currently, we have been broken people. That brokenness actually began at the point in history that scripture points to, and it has been inherited and amplified down through subsequent history.
The brokenness manifests in how we see ourselves and how we see each other. The cause is a separation from God. Separated from God in our hearts, we become unable to see as God sees, and unable to love as God loves.
The solution begins with first reconnecting with God, and by building a relationship with God, restoring our capacity to see as God sees, and love as God loves.
God sees the truth of who we are, and who others are. However, in our society, we are born to parents in families that are still separated from God on some level, and so we learn to see ourselves not as he sees us, and we cannot therefore love ourselves or anyone else, as God does.
We don't really need to make an effort to love ourselves. What we really need to discover is HOW God loves us. How God sees us. Once we begin to see ourselves as he sees us, then our hearts can begin to heal, and love will flow automatically.
If we love ourselves but NOT from God's viewpoint, that's narcissism. But if we learn to see as God sees, we love ourselves, not from our own selfish perspective, but as he does, and in that, we move across the barrier of brokenness, and our capacity to love - others, as well as ourselves, begins to be restored.
Likewise, if others love us but NOT from God's perspective, then that love is on some level dysfunctional.
Learning to see ourselves and others as God does is the key starting point. From an energetic level, you could say that this allows us to resonate with God's love.
I'm not really talking about what happens if we don't do X. I'm talking about what the situation is, the causes, and how it can be improved or resolved.
hope that helps.