Fear

Don’t resist fear. When you resist fear, you manifest the delusion that fear is real. Fear is something you [or some part of you] create/s because you know there is danger in the world. But your fear is limited in terms of the protection it provides from those dangers. At the end of that limit, fear becomes the problem. You don’t need it any more—if you have Love. Love overcomes everything---everything! Love overcame the Cross, and everything that led up to it. Love overcomes death!

When you stop resisting fear you do not become overwhelmed by it. It is your desperate resistance that causes you to feel overwhelmed. Stop resisting and you will see that the you that was resisting is now free. You become disengaged from your fear. The you that was resisting is something different from the fear that you were resisting---otherwise who or what would be resisting what? This you is now free, and can survey a new fearless horizon, which is now transformed because it is free from the dark lenses of fear through which it was previously viewed. There is a new clarity. The air is clean and pure in this place. You can hear the birds sing and see flowers and the unspeakable beauty of a child’s face. Your head is not filled with the smoke of all your problems. There is now infinite possibility.

“But”, one may ask, “ how can I know that I am truly safe in this fearless place? Is it wise to be fearless?” Yes, it is wise, with only one condition---and it is a very important one. Without this condition it would be wiser to retreat back into the fear unless and until you are able to meet it. And this is the condition: That your heart be filled with the pure Light of Christ’s Love. Then and only then are you safe from the darkness of this world, for it cannot penetrate that Light. Then and only then are you safe FOR the world. No harm can come through you. Now you are truly and completely free from fear.

“Perfect Love casts out fear.” [1 John 4:18].