On LOVE
and FEAR
©1996
Frank Sant'Agata
Love and
fear are the only emotions we as human entities are able to express.
All the others are just sub-categorical emotions. For example,
on love's side there is joy, peacefulness, happiness, forgiveness,
and a host of others. On the other hand, fear reflects: hate,
depression, guilt, inadequacy, discontentment, prejudice, anger,
attack, and so on.
Love and fear can not coexist. Where one is, the other can't be
also. The one will leave immediately, should the other enter its
presence. If you find yourself in a situation where you are experiencing
great joy, and are suddenly overtaken by fear, the joy is gone!
But it works the other way too: If you are terrorized, frightened,
or otherwise threatened in any way, all you need to do is turn
to the love within, and the fear disappears.
Learning to make the active choice to love and not fear in every
situation is the way to find inner peace in this world. Yes, I
said choice! We all choose what we wish to see in every
situation, at every moment. Most of the time we choose based on
what we learned in the past. It is what we were taught by our
parents, teachers, peers, doctors, employers, etc. and what we
were brought up to believe we should do. We act on laws that we
made to control our behavior and that of others so that we may
live in an orderly society. When someone gets "out
of order" they may be disliked, fined, incarcerated
or killed. Sometimes, entire countries get "out of order"
and our answer is to declare war on them. These are all things
that are done out of FEAR. We fear that, if someone is out of
control, that is, not following the rules we set up for them to
follow, they are a threat to us, and we fear they will harm us
in some way. So we react to our fear by attacking them first.
That is the way of this world. The law of the jungle so to speak;
eat or be eaten; kill or be killed. That is the way of fear!
The way of LOVE is quite the opposite. It makes no rules, no laws,
for they are not needed! If everyone lived God's law; the law
of love, no other laws would be needed. Laws that protect our
bodies would not be needed because we would not wish to harm another.
Property would not be in jeopardy because we would not wish to
deprive another. We would not use drugs because our love for our
selves would prevent self-destruction. We would not drive recklessly,
or at excessive speeds or under the influence because we might
hurt some one or our selves. We would not sue any one, or lie
or cheat or deprive or take advantage of them. A world without
fear would not need lawyers, courts, police, or jails, because
every one would trust and care for one another. Prices would not
go up, work would be done right by service oriented businesses,
foods would not have harmful ingredients, workers would not be
exploited, etc. But that is not the way of a world built on fear!
We as individual entities, sharing one God mind can make a world
of love. We can do this by keeping connected to our Source, which
in fact we are, but need to open our awareness to it.
Love is LIGHT. Fear is DARKNESS. When you turn on a light, darkness
is no more. There is not a trace of it left! There is not even
a hint of darkness ever having been there! God is LOVE. Love is
light. We are all children of God, therefore, in truth, we are
only LOVE. When we act out of fear, we are turning out the light,
denying our truth, and entering into the darkness. We leave our
love behind and attempt to be something we are not. We attempt
to be apart from our Source; apart from God.
Let us try again this day. Let us tune in to LOVE; to peace, joy,
and happiness.
Father,
help me stay connected to you this day so that I may know the
peace that is my inheritance. Lead me through a world where I
see only love in every situation. Guide me to make the choice
for love and to relinquish fear. When ever I am tempted to listen
to fear's cries, let me listen instead to loves song and know
it is my own. Amen
INDEX
E-mail
Frank Sant'Agata
frank@timelessmiracles.com
The works herein ©
are the exclusive property of Frank Sant'Agata. They may
be copied and distributed, without charge, freely, for personal
and ACIM study group use, only if credit to the author
and this message are included.