Friday, May 17, 2024

LOVE AND FEAR...OUR GIFTS FROM GOD TO GOD

In my dream, we would know God not as separate from creation, but as the living light and holy energy we encounter in and through creation: embodied, incarnated, in the current and flow of past, present, and future, known most intimately in the energy of love. -- Brian McLaren, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, May 17, 2024

As I often remind me, I believe there are only two emotions, love and fear. When we are feeling good about anything, we are feeling love; when we are feeling less-than-good about anything, fear. All the gentler feelings stem from that well of love within us; all less-than or harsh feelings stem from that well of fear within us.

Our feelings, thoughts, memories are all of God. Our gift is to stay them under God's umbrella.

Recently, I have been having free-floating pinches of anxiety...which is different from the usual "anxiety attacks." I am letting these pass on by. They are very brief, no doubt due to my immediate thank you. I feel no need to otherwise control them, and though I feel fear in the moment, I heed it not. 

Blinding flash of the obvious: I continue with my life, praying thank you, and anticipating nothing. God has me...my missteps are all heading me in the right direction, and the right direction can be a U-turn. That, too, is of God. I am open, I remain open for God's will, God's way to lead me to Trust...to Love.

Lord, hear my prayer: Thank You.

Thank you.

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