Love is Letting Go of Fear --continued

Hi, yesterday we were talking about how fear controls our lives. I have titled this segment “Love is Letting Go of Fear” in respect to Gerald Jamploski, and his book of the same name. I read this book in the first year or perhaps it was in my second year of being clean and sober: This book changed my life, I have since reread it a number of times. The book is based on principles found in “The Course of Miracles”, another great read, yet long and involved. Love is Letting Go of Fear is a simple easy to read amazing life changing book. I will attempt to install a few of its precepts in the coming blogs, including today’s.

Most of us just want to be happy; one of the main keys to happiness is to being able to tell what is real. Once we know reality from fantasy and that which is unreal, we have a great basis to work towards being happy. This sounds simple, yet yesterday we have already acknowledged that fear can and does distort our perceptions. That coupled with our histories in which we basically lived in worlds based on fantasies, tells us that our perceptions have been severely challenged. So before making assumptions on our perceptions perhaps we should look at this a little closer. After all we do not want to be guilty of “contempt before investigation” now do we?

Many of us are confused about “What is Real”; we essentially rely on our physical senses to tell us what is and what is not real. We reinforce this perception, by looking towards our society and how it defines “normal” and healthy, therefore real.

Now let us look at Love. And by love I mean the essence of love, being a person of love, real love not Eros or puppy love but the true essence of love that of love of all things and people. The kind of person that is a being of love is Charitable, humble, caring, forgiving, helpful, and giving. Not only to family and friends but to all they meet. Something that really has no beginning and no end, that is immeasurable. Now where, does this fit into our scheme of discerning what is real. Would not our lives be more meaningful and joyful if measured by something that is eternal, such as the essence of love? Rather than the way we have been judging what is real. Compared to love everything else is transitory and finite, therefore I put forth is truly meaningless.

Fear distorts our perception and confuses us as to what is really happening. True Love is the absence of fear. It ask no questions, has no demands. It is acceptance, extension and expansion, not compassion and measurement. Love has value and fear is has no value. Love is what we all want, yet we are afraid of it in the same breath usually not even consciously, we are blind and deaf to love’s presence, for it is not a physical entity, yet a real entity all the same. As we work towards making love our reality, health, wholeness and inner peace can begin to take hold. To be continued
Remember God does not create garbage