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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
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