<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">So true and perfect! That’s the Pathwork!<div><br></div><div>Love, Roz<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 19, 2024, at 11:52 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Bad Seed<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I didn’t know I had the right<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">just to be.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">There was a requirement for living,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I had to prove myself<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">account for my self,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> redeem my being by doing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">work that costed me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I had to make <i>something</i> of myself<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">find an excuse for being,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">but nothing was good enough to gain<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">the recognition, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">validation, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">acceptance I craved<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so one day I just said:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">let me be bad!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I no longer had to try<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and this weathered the dismissal, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">the disapproval, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">the loneliness,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">it made everything so easy <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">I continued to be the bad seed<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">until there was no bad left in me,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">then I was allowed to be<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">the perfect being I always was. . .<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">and I started to partake in creation.<o:p></o:p></p><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>