IT IS ALL ON US

WE

can always

count on the ego

to play

the victim card

If there is anything to be learned from the Prodigal Parable, the responsibility for our experience is all on us.  In spite of the convenience of projecting widespread blame, there is nowhere else to look except in the mirror.

While we may deny to our dying breath that there is little about us that resembles GOD, we are more like GOD than we know.  Our simple ability to create by choice, more aptly described as “miscreating”, keeps landing us in a world of our own miscreation.  We fail to grasp the power within our minds to deliver to ourselves the results of our choices.

Granted, many of the circumstances we now experience were choices made on a much higher level, long before we seemed to touch down as incarnated bodies, but rest assured, these were choices made by us, not decisions thrust upon us.  We need to own up to that which we signed up for, for it represents our continued desire to engage in a misadventure with an identity separate from GOD.  Lest we forget, that is what got the Prodigal Son into hot water in the first place.

All aspects of our individual script came fully equipped with a myriad of possible choices defined by the script, representing the range of our free will within the script.  These were chosen as self-imposed limitations upon ourselves.  To repeat, these have been SELF-imposed, not imposed upon us.  The ego, which represents a self-created identity separate from GOD, is the vehicle which insists upon a separate reality.  It is also quite adept at casting dispersions and responsibility when the pooh hits the fan.  When it is not busy taking credit where credit is not due, it always has a few victim cards ready to throw on the table.

Our ability to create our “own” reality always leaves us with the sinking feeling that perhaps our original choice to venture off may not have been in our own best interest, thus providing the environment for the birth of guilt.  Even though it is all on us, we can chock it up to a nightmare of our own making, for which we will eventually wake up to REALITY.

Therein lies the good news.  Our return HOME is the only place to go.  And even that is all on us.