Love and fear are mutually exclusive. You can’t love and fear in the same moment. It’s just not possible.
Yes, love can feel entangled with fear in such clouds of emotion that it can be challenging to decipher what’s what. Think: stormy romance.
But is that REAL love?
Love is peace.
Love is the absence of struggle.
Love is the complete experience of Oneness with God, even if only in a moment.
Love is open to the beauty in ourselves and in all those around us, without compromise.
Love doesn’t whisper, “What the heck?” or “That’s abhorrent!” or “I’m so useless.” Love knows no such words.
A Course In Miracles says, “Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, it produces a state that does not exist.”
When we bounce nano-second to nano-second between love and fear, in reality, we’re oscillating between the truth of our divine spirit and the false belief in the ego’s existence. We’re divided between what’s real and what’s illusion.
This is not meant to vilify the ego, for that would be yet another expression of the ego. The ego slipping in from behind to criticize and belittle. Love is incapable of such behavior.
Love does not judge.
Let’s ground this and bring it back to Planet Earth…
When do you feel most alive? When you’re in judgment mode or when you’re full on loving someone or something? Isn’t that aliveness an expression of God.
When is Joy palpable? When you’re pissed off that the new president has done something to injure or incite pain in others? Or when you follow your guidance to dance in love, write in love, march in love, laugh in love or teach in love?
Let’s think radical love.
Radical love looks for the dark to find creative ways for the healing to come through.
Radical love shines light in places you wouldn’t think to shine it. Exactly – those spaces in life that aren’t on the radar screen. Perhaps where you’re feeling threatened or fearful. Exactly – there.
Radical love changes things.
Radical love meets fear in the eye and says…”You are nothing to me.”
In closing, another clip from ACIM, “Nothing and everything cannot coexist. To believe in one is to deny the other. Fear is really nothing and love is everything. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished.”
BE everything this week. BE Love!
