Needing Love vs Knowing You Are Loved

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I invite you to consider a tiny shift that changes everything. If you fly from Philadelphia to San Francisco and adjust your heading by just one degree, you land forty four miles off course. Five degrees and you are two hundred miles away. Small changes compound. In the same way, a subtle inner turn from needing to be loved toward knowing you are loved will carry you to a completely different life. Needing love is human. We all start there. Yet when we build our identity on “Do you like me now?” we become shape shifters, measuring ourselves by every reaction around us. But when we stand in the steady truth that “you are absolutely adored by God,” something settles. Swedenborg reminds us that each person is a finite expression of God’s infinite love, created because God is love itself and cannot do otherwise than love what He creates. You are here because Love willed you into being. From that grounding, mistakes lose their sting. Parenting changes. Relationships breathe. This is the one or two degree shift that leads us home.