6 – Pinnacle

Large Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)

Keyword – Embraced by Love

What if you are more deeply loved and treasured than you have ever allowed yourself to believe?

Experiences of rejection, shame, conditional love or being made to feel fundamentally wrong can leave us questioning our worth. We may spend our lives searching for people to choose us, cherish us or prove that we matter, while finding it difficult to imagine a love that does not first require us to earn it.

Pinnacle invites you to consider a profoundly different perception of yourself: that the human soul is a precious creation of God and the object of God’s love and tenderest care.

Like the great Magnolia opening its petals and beckoning the bee into its centre, this essence invites you to open to a relationship in which love is not something you must perform for, bargain for or deserve. It asks whether you can allow yourself to be held, nourished and loved — even in your weakness.

Receiving love does not mean avoiding truth or responsibility. It can give us the nourishment and faith to grow, change and increasingly become what our soul has the potential to become.

Invitation: This essence invites you to explore where rejection, shame or beliefs about an angry or punishing God may have made you resistant to receiving love — and what it would mean to open your soul to being deeply treasured, nourished and embraced by your Creator.

Loving qualities: Receptivity • Worth • Faith in love • Belonging • Humility • Divine nourishment • Transformation • Being treasured

Patterns revealed: Unworthiness • Shame • Rejection • Feeling unlovable • Fear of God • Resistance to receiving love • Conditional love • Seeking worth from others • Fear of intimacy