Meine Lieben,
James van der Beek ist letzte Woche verstorben. Gestern wurde mir auf YouTube ein Video mit seinen letzten Worten in meinem Feed vorgeschlagen.
Es ist eine zutiefst berührende und bewegende Botschaft der Liebe und der Güte. In einer Klarheit, die uns Menschen leider oft erst im Angesicht des Todes zu Teil wird.
Eine Botschaft, die nicht nur die wesentlichste Fragen stellt die wir uns als Menschen stellen können – ja sollen, wenn nicht sogar müssen – und eine Antwort der Liebe auf diese Frage gibt.
It has been the hardest year of my life and I wanted to share something that I learned with y’all.
Um, when I was younger, I used to define myself as an actor, right? Which was never really all that fulfilling. And then I became a husband and that was much better. And then I became a father and that was the ultimate. I could define myself then as a loving, capable, strong, supportive husband, father, provider, steward of the land that we’re so lucky to live on.
And for a long time, that felt like a really good definition to the question, who am I? What am I?
And then this year, I had to look my own mortality in the eye. I had to come nose to nose with death. And all of those definitions that I cared so deeply about were stripped from me.
I was away for treatment. So I could no longer be a husband that was helpful to my wife. I could no longer be a father who could pick up his kids and put them to bed and be there for them. I could not be a provider because I wasn’t working. I couldn’t even be a steward of the land because at times I was too weak to prune all the trees during the window that you’re supposed to prune them.
And so I was faced with the question if I am just a too skinny weak guy alone in an apartment with cancer. What am I?
And I meditated and the answer came through. I am worthy of God’s love simply because I exist.
And if I’m worthy of God’s love, shouldn’t I also be worthy of my own?
And the same is true for you. And as I move through this healing portal toward recovery, I wanted to share that with you because I think that revelation that came to me was due in no small part to all the prayers and the love that had been directed toward me.
So I offer that to you. However it sits in your consciousness, however it resonates, run with it. And if the word God trips you up, um I certainly don’t know. I can’t claim to know what God is or explain God.
Uh my efforts to connect to God are an ongoing process that is a constant unfolding mystery to me. But if it’s a trigger, it feels too religious. You can take the word God out and your mantra can simply be I AM WORTY OF LOVE because you are.
Thank you for the love and prayers everyone. Have a blessed day.
– James Van Der Beek –
Wir alle sind es wert und würdig geliebt zu werden – nicht nur von Gott und von allen anderen Menschen – sondern vor allem von uns selbst.
Gerade dann, wenn es uns selbst schlecht geht, wenn wir mit unseren Kräften am Ende sind, wenn wir nicht mehr wissen, wie es weiter geht.
Wenn wir niemand mehr sind, wenn wir nichts mehr tun oder leisten können, keinen Beitrag mehr geben können, weil wir mit unseren Kraft am Ende sind.
Unsere Würde, unser Wert, unser Beitrag unser Geschenk an die Welt liegt einzig und allein darin, dass es uns gibt, dass wir da sind, dass wir atmen…
Du bist geliebt.
So wie Du bist.
Und Du hast es verdient, geliebt zu werden.
Vor allem von Dir selbst.
Von Herzen,

📹: Transkript aus „James Van Der Beek’s Message we all need to hear…“ on YouTube