Imago Dei—This term is Latin for, "Image of God”— Our Divine nature.
Last Friday, in my women’s meeting, a woman with many years of sobriety walked into our meeting with her brand new baby—11 days old. The room lit up with excitement over new life. It was something to see a group of women in recovery responding like that.
Later, another woman shared that we respond to babies because they are a reminder of the Divine being delivered into the world through our bodies into this life. She went on to say that as we get older, we forget that we still have that divinity within us.
We get caught up in this life and when things go south for us in our world, we forget to tap into that divinity within us.
When we reach our bottoms in addiction, we are at the end of ourselves—our human selves. We needed to start living differently or we would die. We needed help. From other humans and from God. We have forgotten how to “feed” the spiritual side of ourselves. We are too busy “feeding” our earthly physical desires that don’t serve us—or others.
In our surrender to God, we become like children, learning how to be humans again in our recovery. We come into meetings, see others like ourselves showing us how to live their lives in recovery without the help of drugs or alcohol—but with the help of others and God.
Then, with baby steps, we are new again. Like babies with the Divine visible in us for all to see.
I am sober again today.
Renewed in the image of God.
I am lit up with excitement for your new life!
“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator”
Colossians 3:9-10
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