Worship?

[jafar]

I am wondering if/how others "worship" the 1/I Creator, Creation? Is worshipping the Source necessary? 

I personally get hung up on such terms. I also get hung up when I read the term "Father" in reference to the 1/I Creator, and christian references to the Creator, or Source. 

It's my own baggage. I was raised in a very strict religion with a distortion of "God" that scared and angered me. Lots of judgment, shame and guilt from this God and from other humans. If I didn't do as told, I would go to eternal hell. 

I had serious questions accepting this religion as I learned more, and much to my mother's heart-ache, I stepped away when I was young (pre-adolescence). She has now come to ask similar questions and see 'distortions.' 

So, when I read - in Quo, Ra, etc. - references to my early childhood religion (based on judgment and punishment), I stumble on the words. 

Have any others encountered this? How have you reconciled?

Judging and thus punishing is among the lowest frequency of emotion.
It's 'troubling' and the 'trouble' act as a catalyst for one to start seeking the opposite.
Acceptance and forgiveness.
Thus without the existence of judging and punishing , acceptance and forgiveness cannot be recognized.

“All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

As for 'worship' here's what Quo has to say about it:

Summary of a very long answer regarding the matter on:
https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1990/1104

"In sum, worship is that gathering of purified emotion which kneels in surrender to the purity itself, the beauty itself, the truth itself, the love itself, that is the Creator. The outgrowths of worshipful, faithful living, moment by moment, are those things which many may perceive to be most beautiful and hard won contests against the temptation to make sense within the narrow definitions of your mind, of that which is infinite as the object of worship is infinite."

If it's still too long or complicated, then Jesus said it best:
"Let your will be done, on earth as it's in heaven".

As additional information the word 'islam', in classical arabic actually have a true meaning of:
"Peacefully/Gladfully accept / surrender to the will of the Creator".

Yet somehow the word become distorted in meanings to become a label / name of a religion.
In sum, worship is that gathering of purified emotion which kneels in surrender to the purity itself, the beauty itself, the truth itself, the love itself, that is the Creator. The outgrowths of worshipful, faithful living, moment by moment, are those things which many may perceive to be most beautiful and hard won contests against the temptation to make sense within the narrow definitions of your mind, of that which is infinite as the object of worship is infinite.