Honor Your Parents
Debbie Greer

I have nothing but good memories of my childhood when it comes to my parents. I was definitely one of the fortunate ones in that I was brought up well, with parents that did love me and always tried to do the best or me. I can remember as a young girl picking wild flowers and bringing them to my mother. We would go to the ocean and spend days there just lying in the sun and playing in the water. My whole family would go to the drive in movies. Mom and dad would put one of the twin beds across the back seat and we would watch the first movie and then go to sleep while they watched the second one, which was never for kids to see. Yes, I had a pretty wholesome upbringing.

Things changed when I became a teenager, as they do in most families. I began to seek the approval and acceptance of peers, and that became the focus for many years to come. I remember being embarrassed by my parents and how I no longer wanted to do things with them. This change in me caused a lot of friction and fights in my household. I became rebellious and didn’t want to listen to them anymore. I thought I knew it all and I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to be further and further away from them so that I could run my own life.

I eventually moved across the country to California where I still live twenty years later. I have since gone through many changes and learning lessons in my life. I see now that all those years I was seeking approval from people, or throwing myself away to some man, was a waste of time and a degradation to my own sense of honor.

When women give themselves away to men, or put out the expectation that a man is going to fulfill them and make all their dreams come true, this sets them up for disappointment. This pattern is, simply put, not the correct use of our energy as women. At the Academy for Psychic Studies women are taught how to get back on track where they may have lost themselves in the past. They are taught to love themselves and respect their space as the daughter of the Supreme Being so that outside influences can’t tear down this positive self image.

In my own life I had become a disgrace to myself and was living in a situation beneath the station I was brought up to live in. I am thankful that I have come around to seeing myself in a wholesome light again. My natural father was always a wonderful mirror to my spiritual father, even though I didn’t always see this. He wanted the best for me, cherished my existence and loved me just he way I was. This is how the Supreme Being sees me and I know He wants to give to me and shower me with all the good things in life. It has simply taken me some time to learn to accept it.

I took the long road, twenty years out of my way, to discover that all I need to do is say hello inside myself to my connection to the God of my Heart, and stop looking outside to others to love and accept me when He already does.

I can validate my parents today. They did the best they could with what they had at the time. At the bottom line they totally approved and acceptance of me all the time, mirroring to me inside my relationship with my true parent, the Supreme Being.

I thank them for giving me such a positive foundation upon which to grow.

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