Here is a question for you. What if there is only love and fear and nothing else? What if you decided to dive headlong into this question, would you discover that the greater truth is that there is only love?
Maybe you need a moment to think about it. Maybe the presence of fear is so strong that the answer is obvious, that of course there is fear, and so much more. Perhaps you are in the middle of a place of strife, whether that’s inside or outside of you.
It’s possible that fear is the only thing that seems real in this moment. I hope that is not the case for you, but if it is, I hope I have something to say worth your considering.
Recently fear had crept inside of me and was burrowing around, looking for a home. I felt it in the tightness of my chest, and it would not move.
I called out to Lia (one of the names I have for god) and asked for some guidance.
She came and rested inside of me and told me that both love and fear lead in the same direction. She said that love leads directly, while fears takes an indirect path.
I asked what else she could tell me about the path of fear. I wanted the heaviness in my chest to go away. I was worried that things would not turn out the way I wanted them to. I dislike this feeling and wondered how it could be released.
Lia said to me, “Part of the answer lies in trusting. Trusting that ALL paths lead to me. Right now, your sense of discomfort is because you doubt this outcome. You believe that your fears are going to take you down some other path and that you will become lost. You believe your fears will lead you into a world of suffering, pain and sorrow and you want to avoid this.”
She continued, “The truth for you in this moment is that fear feels unavoidable, but you can reframe your life.”
Lia asked me to imagine an ugly frame with a beautiful picture inside. She asked me to imagine that the beautiful picture is not only my life, but the picture of love. The ugly frame surrounding it is fear because that is how I see certain aspects of my life. She told me that the truth is that I can transform fear into love and that the deeper truth is that even fear is beautiful.
I confessed to being mystified.
Lia said, “Part of the truth lies in the mission of fear, its purpose.”
She went on to clarify, “It exists to aid you in your life. It directs you and points the way toward love, as a sure guidepost.”
I wanted to know so much more.
Lia told me that we had taken the first step, which was my willingness to ask and to listen. I’d opened myself up.
I wanted more peace than that and to release the lingering heaviness in my chest.
Lia encouraged me to sit back, close my eyes and to force a few quick breaths from my lungs, then rest.
I did as she requested and there was peace and a new freedom of breathing. And it gave me a chance to consider her words to me.
Am I capable of trusting that any fear that comes to visit me is here to serve me as a guidepost and help direct me back to love? Can I reframe my world, releasing fear and embracing love?
These are important questions to me and they have the ability to shape my whole world. It is up to me where I place my trust and what path I choose to travel. I want the path of love.
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