There is a pervasive belief among some people that says, “I shouldn’t have to love myself. Love should just come to me because I am a good person.” Most people who have this belief are people who didn’t get the love they deserved in the past. They are carrying a wound from the lack of love. They feel it is somehow a failure if they have to love themselves because they should have been loved properly by another.
First off, let us make this clear. You are a good person. You are a beloved piece of God and the love we have for you is immeasurable. You have always deserved love. That has never been in question, not even for a second. If someone wasn’t able to offer you what you have always deserved, it was never about you. You are always worthy of love because you are born from the love of Source.
Now that we have made that absolutely clear, we wish to offer you a different perspective on this issue. If your wound is due to the lack of love, why would you perpetuate it by denying yourself the love you deserve from you? Why would you hold yourself separate from any love for one more second? It is your own glorious, delicious love that will heal your heart to fullness, which will then naturally draw even more love to you. You will be so steeped in love you will be absolutely magnetic to even more of what you have always deserved.
You will no longer be seeking love as an external to fill you up, you will be leading the love parade through your actions and essence as an expression of who you really are. From there the rest can’t help but fall into place beautifully. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young