| Write On! My ego is rambunctious as I try and integrate what I’m learning (and unlearning). It’s arm-wrestling with my Divine Nature. The battle inside my head between these two competitors rages. My ego has declared civil war! One of the ways I’m working through this mental struggle is to write about it. When I write about stuff God’s inviting me to learn and apply to life, the Divine Muse (God) gives clarity and deeper understanding. And I hope as I write out loud about what I’m struggling to learn, it will help you discover and apply it to your life too. Over the next few weeks, let’s dig into these questions so we can lean into the answers: 1. What’s my ego? 2. Who am I? 3. Who is my guide? This week we begin our journey forward by identifying the two voices in our minds: Our Divine Nature and our ego. 
What’s My Ego? The ego is not evil, it’s just confused. Over a lifetime of protecting ourselves, the ego constructs a false sense of self. It clings to an identity based on our physical appearances, social and work roles, relationships, and material attachments. This “mind-made self” is fragile. It seeks constant validation to affirm it’s real, but it’s not real. It’s an illusion. Ego messes up our minds with faulty thinking. It believes a bunch of lies. It believes we’re separated from God. We’re flawed. Unworthy of love. We’re bad. Ego thrives on fear, guilt, and conflict because it thinks those mental steel walls will protect us from further harm. It focuses on past hurts, current problems, and future worries. Ego lives and breeds in survival mode. It seeks to distract us with social media, entertainment, sports, and any other addiction it can throw at us. The ego’s home base is fear. It’s threatened by love. But ego is not real, although it sure thinks it is. It’s the misconceptions we’ve told ourselves over the years, the false beliefs we’ve used to protect us from life’s pain and suffering. When the ego feels threatened, it will pick a fight, especially with our Divine Nature. The ego resists Divine Nature (aka our True Self) because it challenges the ego’s existence. Ego screams at Divine Nature, hurling one mental attack after another. It challenges our True Self with words like, “Who are you to tell me I’m not real? I’m the boss around here, not you. Just be quiet and things will go back to normal—confusion, conflict, doubt, fear, all the things I thrive on. So, let me win the battle and the fight will end.” With compassion, Divine Nature gently uncovers the ego’s false, fear-based beliefs of separation, its unhealthy need to control, and its desire to win at all costs. | 
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