Acceptance - You are a Castle

This is from the book The Dark Side of the light Chasers by Debbie Ford. In Love and Awakening John Welwood uses the analogy of a castle to illustrate the world within us. Imagine being a magnificent castle with long hallways and thousands of rooms. Each room represents a different aspect of yourself and is an integral part of the entire perfect castle. Your castle was full of light, love and wonder. As a child you embraced every room whether it was a closet, a bedroom, bathroom or a cellar. Then one day someone came to your castle and told you that one of your rooms was imperfect; that surely it didn't belong in your castle. They suggested that if you wanted to have a perfect castle you should close and lock the door to this room. Since you wanted love and acceptance you quickly closed off that room. More people came to your castle to give you all their opinions of the rooms which they liked and which ones they didn't like; you closed doors because you were afraid when you thought the rooms were too bold. You closed doors because your religious leaders told you to stay away from certain rooms. You now close any door that did not fit into society standards or your own ideal. The days were gone when your castle seemed endless and your future seemed exciting and bright. You no longer cared for every room with the same love and admiration. Rooms you were once proud of you wanted to disappear. You try to figure out ways to get rid of these rooms but they were part of the structure of your castle. Many of us listen to 'them' and don't love our castle and we begin to believe that we are just a small 2-bedroom house in need of repairs.
This is shame. There is no room for shame in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We need to love God, ourselves and our neighbors. Matthew: 23: 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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