What Do You have to Be Proud of?

What talents, skills, abilities and ideas do you have to be proud of? List them and inventory your advantages. You will see that some of those were gifts to you from your parents who helped you get the training to receive them. Some of them were from hanging around other people and those abilities, skills and insights rubbed off on you. Some were inherent in your nature from the beginning and needed only a little coaxing to bring them into full expression. All of these good things come from God. Believe it or not, all the good things anyone could ever think, do, say or imagine come from God. Those things are already in the Mind of God and are given to those who open for them or who earn them from becoming a manifestation of the love of God. Everything good in you is from God. Everything evil in you is from you. The bad stuff is created by human consciousness or non-physical influences. All the negative tendencies, the hatred, war, anger, illness, fears, and prejudices are created by beings created by God. God cannot will evil and always is good and helpful to the creation. In God there is no darkness at all. Darkness is in people. So you can be proud of being bad. You can be proud of being stingy, jealous, mean, angry, hurtful or hard hearted. But all the good things were gifts and you did not generate them out of your own will and desire. God planted those inspirations and possibilities inside you when you were created. It is just like a flower that is encased in its greenery before it blossoms. The flower does not have to get puffed up about being so special. It has to relax so that in time the blossom opens and demonstrates it nature and scent. The flower is already there because God created it that way. It just takes time to become what you were created to be. You can't take credit for the beauty or the fragrance. You just let it flower forth and stop being self-conscious about it. You don't take credit for what God built either, because in humility you get it that you cannot add another couple inches to your height. Relax and let your real spirit shine forth and forget all of the rest. Stop being mean and angry and prideful and sullen. Get over your need to make a big stink on the planet and be like you were created to be.