What If

What If . . .

You were already enough just the way you are?

What if, no task, responsibility, duty, role, or job you ever could do would improve upon the worth you already had?

What if, you realized you are worthy of everything good,
simply because. . .

You were born.

Would any of these things make a difference in how you walk through life?  Of how you interact with people or view your place in the world?  Because these realizations have changed me forever.

WITHIN
By Carol Lynn Pearson

I read a map once
Saying the kingdom of God
Was within me.
But I never trusted
Such unlikely ground.

I went out.
I scoured schools
And libraries
And chapels and temples
And other people's eyes
And the skies and the rocks.
And I found treasures
From the kingdom's treasury
But not the kingdom.

Finally I came in quiet
For a rest
And turned on the light.

And there
Just like a surprise party
Was all the smiling royalty--
King, Queen, court.

People have been
Locked up for less, I know.
But I tell you
Something marvelous
Is bordered by this skin:

I am castle
And the kingdom of God
Is within.

Sometimes "coming in quiet" to yourself is the most important thing you can do.  And what you hear may astonish you.

You are already enough.