Integrity & Alignment

I'm finding that deep integrity is when what you believe + what you say + what you do are in alignment.

It's really very simple. Yet lining up all these things in my family's life has required us to do some deep digging, and practically move our entire world around.

What I believe + what I say + what I do ... all in line... hour by hour, day by day. Week by week.

Wow... what a concept. I'm still in process. But ever so much more aware!

What's staggeringly embarrassing is when you realize that you've been professing one thing, only to finally realize you don't actually operate that way. Gosh what a blow. Ha! And finding your own lack of integrity is a really tricky thing... the ego doesn't like to be found out.

"It seems easier to defend actions than to honestly examine them. We are quicker to attack than to admit. Admissions require courage!" - Harry Palmer

And the more we want to be "right" about something, the more our ego defends. "I didn't do that!" "It wasn't me." "You're wrong."

Wars are waged to cover up misaligned actions.

But eventually, a lack of integrity becomes glaringly obvious.

Stopping, examining, humbling yourself, and being vulnerable enough to align your life with what truly matters to you could result in losing everything you're comfortable with.

Creating the life of integrity-filled thriving that you want could cost you the life you have.

But living a life of personal integrity, of alignment, is a priceless treasure! And I think that's part of the awakening that's happening all over the world. A willingness to finally look into that scary place. The place of personal integrity. Where we honestly look to see if what we say we believe is what we're doing. Where we look to find and decide to live by the ways of beingness that are more vital to ourselves and our inner relationship with God... and less about our social culture or expectations.

Where we also look to see if the companies, religious organizations, businesses, and groups and culture we associate with or are learning from are actually living by what they say they believe in.

But instead of attacking them, simply realign our lives to live by what we truly believe in.

What we find may require that we walk in the unknown places or the wilderness for a while. But integrity is worth it. We are honestly all aching for it.

People all over the world are deconstructing their faiths, questioning dogma, rituals, and religious practices. Why do we do it this way? What's the reasoning? Where's the money going? Why was I taught this? Was there an agenda? What's the end result? What am I experiencing in my life as a result of my participation in this?

When I first looked, the first thing I hit was anger, and then to discharge it, I blamed.

"My father taught me that." "The pastor told me that."

"It's their fault for misleading me."

"I didn't know."

But that's not taking personal responsibility. Because I chose to sit there and be a part of it. It's about time I take ownership of my own integrity.

I think it would be a shame to blame the well-intentioned, charismatic & narcissistic leaders who are running the religious business machines or the arrogant, controlling leaders of secular companies, when we were the ones who choose to submit and blindly follow them in the first place.

Maybe we didn't know better. Maybe they didn't.

But it's always a good time to forgive, release, realign and regain personal ownership.

We are all walking home on our own journey of redemption.

Realign.

I am in an irrevocable relationship and connection with my Source.

I am responsible for leading myself and my family.

I forgive and am forgiven.

I am responsible to ensure that what I believe + what I say + what I do are in alignment.

I am deeply loved right where I am.

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