FEAR... It imprisons us. It creates criminals in us. It oppresses us. It traps us. It robs us of the joy of life. It keeps us from love and loving. It sucks the essence of life right out of us. It causes good people to do bad things. It distorts relationships.
If you are going to fear something.... fear being trapped by FEAR, owned by FEAR, controlled by FEAR.
How do you combat FEAR? by the BEST four letter word.....LOVE
Where love is patient and kind and does not hold grudges, fear is just the opposite. Where love is not jealous and envious of another but hopes and encourages and lifts up, fear compares and accuses and condemns. Fear seeks to punish. Love is grace and mercy. Fear hoards while love is generous.
Love does not seek to possess and control through oppression and distortion. Love seeks to relate through truth and nurturing.
In this world, we struggle against principles that are anchored in fear. Any oppressive environment can be linked to a principle of fear.
Fear has waged a war against love.
Fear is a powerful opponent of love. It is insatiable and seeks to devour any being that would choose to be transformed by love, to live by the principles of love, to become a manifestation of love. But....Love casts out fear. There is no fear where love exists. They cannot occupy the same space at one time.
Love conquers fear, not by force or invalidation but by manifestations of joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
If I could make a day for you, it would be a day filled with the manifestations of love.
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