The Gift

We all share a remarkable gift. It has been around for a long time—longer than any of us can remember. It is the gift of being human. A great part of the gift is finding it—the discovery of who you really are. It is a gift of the Universe.

Humans—Homo sapiens—comprise the most diverse, creative species this Earth has ever created. Driven by our insatiable curiosity and need to understand—to find meaning—we have developed this quality into a great strength. However, it is both a blessing and a curse… we are at risk of annihilating ourselves because of the curse! To survive, we must turn every shred of it into a blessing—by choosing good over evil. We shall succeed as soon as we remember that our strengths and talents are a Gift of the Divine. Then we shall know that all lives are sacred.

You and I—all of us—have been here since the beginning of time. The stuff of which we are made, and the time in which we find ourselves have been here since then. It does not matter how you define that beginning, be it Genesis 1:1, the Big Bang, or the cracking of the Cosmic Egg… they are all different interpretations of the same thing.

Neither you nor I created us. So, regardless of how we may feel about ourselves, let us agree to give ourselves permission to know that nothing the Creation ever creates is an accident. The Created Universe is an intentional Being that is the source of our bodies, our minds, our souls and our spirits—our very being. To presume otherwise is dangerously naïve. To presume that we are but an accident is fatally flawed thinking that removes all meaning from our lives.

We humans tend to believe that the Creator is curious and bemused about our existence but is not involved in it… the legacy of the legend of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3 of the Bible, the Torah, and the Qur’an. Consider this hypothesis: all of the so-called “negative” experiences we have created, including our great wars, we have perpetrated on ourselves because of our fear that we are a shameful accident of creation. This is a perfect example of “stinkin’ thinkin’”… it presumes that the Creator is incompetent. If the Creation had ONE tiny flaw, it would wink out of existence. How quickly can we correct the error of our thought?

Let us choose to look at our lives differently. Let us see ourselves as gifted by the Creation, Itself. Let us adopt the attitude and belief that the life you and I share now is a divine gift given at the beginning of time. Shortly after we are born, we forget how the Gift came to us. The challenge and reward of our life is to remember. This is our healing. When we realize that we are this divine Gift, our only response is to discover the ways in which we can return the gift—the way to serve… and our rewards always come in exact proportion to the level and degree of our service. An infinite abundance delivers them to us. Knowing that abundance, we need only accept the rewards with happy gratitude, and live the life promised us from the beginning. It is all The Gift. Enjoy it; it is your blessing.