I'm sure I've had this blinding flash of the obvious before but it seems truer this morning. I again got that our deepest fear (our nemesis) represents crucifixion to us. We will and do go to incredibly self-destructive lengths to avoid experiencing our nemesis loosed, i.e., crucifixion.
We may well know that it is only by walking to and through that fear that we reach acceptance/surrender and yet stay stuck in the fear of the unimaginable: the flogging, the nails, the thorns, the stabbing. None of those is an actual mental picture (we're too afraid to bring that picture into focus), but all are there in our niggling "what if" terror.
Our decision to welcome rather than resist our fear of our nemesis, invites it to come out...to see and be seen, and out it comes! And brings nothing we feared...our nemesis is relatively painless for it could never be as painful as our fear of it.
It is our decision that opens us to the healing love of powerlessness. We welcome rather than resist, and our painful fear is allayed. We can laugh and love and let the fear go. Our nemesis becomes our strong suit.
Thank you.
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