The Angels – Each one of you wants to be known as a kind and loving soul. We in the heavens know that you already are. Even if you’re an angry human being, underneath the layers of protection, we behold only the truth of your sweet and sensitive heart. You never need to prove your worth or goodness to the heavens. We already see you, often more accurately than you see yourselves.
You are enough exactly as you are. You never need to please a soul to be worthy of love. When your service to others comes from joy, it comes from God. When your service to others comes from duty, from a sense of wanting to “get” them to love or acknowledge your goodness, or from guilt… then it comes from ego.
There is nothing wrong with ego. It is part of who you are. It is a container so to speak, for the greater Self – much as water is contained by the glass. The glass helps shape and define the water, but the water is free. It evaporates into steam, turns into rain, falls in the river, and runs to the ocean only to repeat the cycle again.