That which we fear becomes the God of our understanding because our entire focus is on our fear of what we are fearing.
Sometime in the early '80s I heard or read that there are only two emotions...love and fear...that all other emotions are born of those two. That's all I remember about it, probably all I need to remember; it made sense to me, so I rely on it. Any negative vibes I get, I know as fear, any positive ones...love. The old K.I.S.S. principle works for me.
I try to think of fear as ego snares...ah, not to resist but to welcome. Our ego snares are not to react to, not to respond to, not to hate but to love...to welcome...for all whom/all that we welcome are of God and necessary for our spiritual growth. Our egoic mistake is in forgetting we are not to react or respond but to love...i.e., to accept. Just accept...ideally, without comment.
I believe it is God's will when our ego loses in those times of personal conflicts. How else do we learn our necessary life lessons? My deepest spiritual growth has come in my learning after the fact when my ego Lucy has lost in a petty pushback of life.
The paradox is that's also true when our ego wins...it's afterward when we experience the pain of that "win." And there it is...that's how we build our own dunghill, and find out that only returning to God restores us to sanity...spiritual and rational.
Coming to trust that God is love, and God is all continues to be my hardest doing-it-by-living-it lesson. Which is as it should be...that keeps me seeking, ever seeking.
Thank you.
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