Some Native American tribes believe that the first people came out of mounds on the earth. Western European lore has us coming down from the sky. Those two mythologies have everything to do with how we interact with our environment.

We are also deeply affected by what we believe God to be; near or far, male or female, compassionate or wrathful, personal or abstract. Our choices and behaviors are dictated by how we see our place in the universe and our relationship to our Source.

What if we dropped all the variations on the theme of origin and simply accepted that we are all alive, aware, thinking beings who can imagine and invent and design and build; who are capable of love and joy and wonder and peace; whose bodies have a healing agent within that closes wounds and fights infection?

What if we just realized that our actions have reactions; that what we do has an impact on our environment and the people in our lives? What if we accepted that we are as much a part of nature as the oceans and the sky and that our value is inherent and can't be earned or bought? What kind of world would we create if we took responsibility for our thought and emotions, knowing that they ultimately take some kind of form or become experience?

Someone once said that we are either alone in this universe or we are not and either way is terrifying. What if it were liberating instead? What if we are the first people? Wouldn't we want to leave a legacy of peace and interdependent cooperation? Wouldn't we want to consciously evolve our species? What if we are not alone? Then don't we want to learn to be together before we meet our space neighbors?

My point today is that our beliefs about God will take us only so far. We have to make a decision about how we will live, regardless of where we began. Maybe it is enough to know that life supports us at the level of our Self Identity.

Today I choose to know myself as the Center of my Experience, the Inheritor of a Universe of Infinite Possibility!