Fear
What a strange word to find in a Blog about Intimacy. But, there it is - in your face - FEAR. For what ever reason, the word has been presented to me a number of times in the past two weeks.
Just returning from overseas where fear seems to be running rampant, I am reminded of a quote from the set of books entitled A Course in Miracles: "Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do." Here we are faced with the admonition: "To thine own Self be true." But, whenever the emotion of fear shows up, there is also the possibility of the virtue of courage following. And courage is needed when we are faced with a war with self. Now that is intimate!
There is a poem by Roxanne Ivey which espouses a philosophy of merit. It was published in Unity Magazine , October 2000 and is written in the voice of a loving inner presence (what some call God) and it went something like this:
Beloved Child, Believe in Me,
I Am the One Reality.
Fear merely feigns to know the way,
And blackest night forgets the day,
But Faith recalls the rising sun and wakes to find all good is done.
The phantom fear does not exist
But in your mind how you resist
And fight this foe whom You create,
Imagining some future fate.
But if you look through loving eyes
Beyond the shadows where fear lies,
You'll picture peace, then understand
I'm walking with you hand in hand.
Later in the same magazine, one of my favorite authors, James Dillet Freeman, writes: God is speaking. Are you listening?
Sometimes God speaks to us when we don't even know it is God. I think God has many ways of speaking to us and not only in words that we hear with our ears. I think God speaks to our hearts and minds, and sometimes God's message has nothing to do with words. God is love and intelligence and life. More than anything we say God is, or even imagine God is, God is the one universal Presence and Power and is seeking to express Truth and beauty and good through all of us and for all of us.
That thought should take care of almost anything.
Just returning from overseas where fear seems to be running rampant, I am reminded of a quote from the set of books entitled A Course in Miracles: "Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do." Here we are faced with the admonition: "To thine own Self be true." But, whenever the emotion of fear shows up, there is also the possibility of the virtue of courage following. And courage is needed when we are faced with a war with self. Now that is intimate!
There is a poem by Roxanne Ivey which espouses a philosophy of merit. It was published in Unity Magazine , October 2000 and is written in the voice of a loving inner presence (what some call God) and it went something like this:
Beloved Child, Believe in Me,
I Am the One Reality.
Fear merely feigns to know the way,
And blackest night forgets the day,
But Faith recalls the rising sun and wakes to find all good is done.
The phantom fear does not exist
But in your mind how you resist
And fight this foe whom You create,
Imagining some future fate.
But if you look through loving eyes
Beyond the shadows where fear lies,
You'll picture peace, then understand
I'm walking with you hand in hand.
Later in the same magazine, one of my favorite authors, James Dillet Freeman, writes: God is speaking. Are you listening?
Sometimes God speaks to us when we don't even know it is God. I think God has many ways of speaking to us and not only in words that we hear with our ears. I think God speaks to our hearts and minds, and sometimes God's message has nothing to do with words. God is love and intelligence and life. More than anything we say God is, or even imagine God is, God is the one universal Presence and Power and is seeking to express Truth and beauty and good through all of us and for all of us.
That thought should take care of almost anything.
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