The only response I had after hearing those words and feeling their meaning was, “It feels great, I feel light and totally FREE,” and I broke down and cried because even though I had mentally known this, it hadn’t really hit profoundly me until that day. My heart opened up and my body felt a completely different sense of freedom and joy. There was an obvious personal message for me in this: Relationships never have to contain any debt. Nothing in life has to. There is nothing to repay to anyone, and furthermore, we create our own karma. We don’t have to ‘earn’ a living or owe anyone anything for living and wanting to have a good life. We don’t have to be in debt because we are born female or male, or of one religion or another. We don’t have to carry around such burdens from lifetime to lifetime thinking that there is a pay-back due somewhere, unless we want to.

I started to consider what being debt-free means in the more expanded sense for humanity. All the debts that are owed through centuries due to blood pacts, feuds and wars, religion, vows, finances, betrayal or blackmail or bribery, through pain and suffering (and there are so many of these on this planet) erased.

Can you imagine what would happen if we (all of us) were to start with a clean slate now and remove all debts, forgive all debts? Could we forgive ourselves and others, while living with a new way wherein we take responsibility for ourselves? No more victims, no more martyrs, no more enemies, no more pointing fingers at the outside world blaming ‘them’ for what we do, or do not, experience or have? No more riding on another’s coat tails so you don’t have to do anything yourself, and therefore always have a scapegoat for what could go wrong?

Is the world ready for this? Are we ready to work WITH one another as really free beings who deserve to have food, shelter, clothing, medicine, education and remove the debts which keep us in slavery and resentment? Owing means you are a slave to some thing or some person, you are indebted to them. It is an imposed obligation. Do you enjoy the ball and chain that is created through owing?

Debt-free. What does it mean to you and can you accomplish it? How would you go about doing that? Would it mean revising your attitudes? Paying off your bills? Never feeling you owe your body and/or soul to someone else, that there is a heavy price to pay for something in the future for something you need or want now? Does the idea that you owe something keep you going, and has it become a comfortable habit? Can you give and receive from your heart without the idea of owing, or making someone else owe, for having done so? Do you always owe an explanation or justification to others for being who you are and living your own truth? Do you feel deserving of more than just owing and paying back? Do you realize the tremendous energy drain and restrictions which occur through debt consciousness?

These are some of the thoughts I’ve had and offer to you for your own consideration.