Good morning…
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid,” says the Albert Einstein quote at the bottom of my friend’s email. Thought-provoking. Right?
The unique fractal of God implanted in us is our genius, our soul, our hidden True Self (Gen. 1:26-27). We do not decide if we are like a frog gifted with the ability to climb a tree or if we are like a fish given the innate ability to effortlessly swim. Awaking to this realization, we cozy into our Creator and whisper with gratitude the words of Psalm 139:13-16 (AMP).
For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was being formed in secret, and intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were appointed for me, when as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape].
“We can think of the Self as already within us, an imprint of wholeness and divinity that’s fully encompassing, but we must also see it as (to borrow Episcopal priest and Jungian analyst John Sanford’s words) a ‘potentiality striving to become realized in us,'” says Sue Monk Kidd on page 51 of When the Heart Waits. “I sometimes think of the True Self as a bulb buried in the dark ground of my unconscious, seeking to push into the conscious light above.”
Our True Self is handcrafted by our Creator before we are born, our genius, our soul, our “potentiality striving to become realized.” When we live like a fish trying to climb a tree we exhaust ourselves feeling stupid, worthless, somehow out of sync. Eventually truth dawns, “I cannot keep striving to be who I am not.” Leaving behind the tree-climbing crowd, we sense our way to the water, wade in, and swim.
Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part [of my heart] You will make me know wisdom (Psalm 51:6, AMP).
…Sue…
