Our truth is about who we really are and who we came to be, without regard to culture, social conventions, or what anyone else thinks. Our truth is about what God needs of us, and it is different for everyone. Sometimes it's radically different, which is confusing because many people believe that if God needs one thing from a person, then God must need that from everyone. This isn't true. Nevertheless, this belief causes us to judge other people who may be living a truth that makes us uncomfortable.

You are a unique expression of God. No one else can do the job that you came here to do. No one. So when you find your truth and speak it and live it, you are doing what God needs of you, and things will fall magically into place. It will be easy. It will be perfect. But because yours is a unique experience, the exact processes that worked so magically for you won't apply to everyone else. Everyone must find their own perfect path and discover their own perfect truth.

When you are living your truth, you are "right" with yourself, but this does not make your truth "right" for everyone. It's easy to assume that some people are not living their truth, or that they aren't doing it right somehow. You probably don't approve of everyone's choices. You may feel challenged by other people's truth. But resist the impulse to make them "wrong" in their truth and to judge whether they have even found their truth at all, because only they can know that.

For some people, their truth is that they are gay, or maybe they're a transvestite. Or they're a poet, expressing beauty and emotion with words; we still need our poets. Or they're a scientist whose purpose is to make an important discovery. Or they came to be a rock star, athlete, or a civil rights leader. Or they're just living a quiet life in a quiet place with a quiet job, raising kids and supporting and being part of a particular soul group in this lifetime. None of these purposes is more or less important than the other. If we believe that one purpose is "more important," then that is a judgment we have made ourselves, and judgments are not true.

When we're living our truth, we are listening to our own inner, divine voice—the voice of our heart. Our head often gets in the way and tries to reason its way out of our truth, but our heart always knows. Its voice is persistent, and the answer is always the same, no matter how many times we ask. It may say, "I should change jobs," and the head may reply, "No. Too risky. What if you fail?" But the heart will continue its gentle drumbeat, coaxing you down the path of what God needs of you. If God needs you to take a risk, don't you think that you will be supported? Listen to that quiet voice. If you're not happy, that's your heart's way of telling you that you need to listen to it and ignore your naysaying head.

It takes courage to follow your truth, so recognize the courage that it takes for other people to follow theirs. Whatever you may think of them, they are doing the best they can, and that's all God ever asks of anyone. If they ask you for help, offer it, but remember that their guidance, their heartsong, is not yours. And let it be.

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