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Fear or love. Which shall we choose?

Seems like an easy enough question, doesn’t it? Then why, I wonder, do so we often choose fear? What? You don’t? I’m going to have suggest that you think again. And, I’m going to tell you why. First, we’ll need an excerpt from CWG, Book1, to set the frame for the debate. Now, I am going to skip around a bit, well, not skip around so much as skip past, parts of what I’m going to quote here, but not so much that you’ll miss anything. And the payoff is in the end anyway, isn’t it always? :^)

I’m going to start on page 15, with God’s response to Neale’s question, in response to God’s statement, giggle. Shush, you’ll see what I mean in a minute. :^)

God: “For it is in the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which the value most.”

Neale: “But why? Why do we do that?”

God: “All human actions are motivated at their deepest level level by one of two emotions – fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions – only two words in the language of the soul. These are the opposites of the great polarity which I created when I produced the universe, and your world, as you know it today.

These are the the two points – the Alpha and the Omega – which allow the system you call “relativity” to be. Without these two points, without these two ideas about things, no other idea could exist.

Every human thought, and every human action, is based in either fear or love. There is no other human motivation and all other ideas are but derivatives of these two. They are simply different versions – different twists on the same theme. Think on this deeply and you will see that it is true. This is what I have called the Sponsoring thought. It is either a thought of love or fear. This is the thought behind the thought. It is the first thought. It is prime force. It is the raw energy that drives the human experience.”

continuing on page 16, “…And the reason is found in the first lie – the lie which you hold as the truth about God – that God cannot be trusted; the God’s love cannot be depended upon; that God’s acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God’s love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?

…And so it is that in the moment you pledge your highest love, you greet your greatest fear. For the first thing you worry about after saying “I love you” is whether you’ll hear it back. And if you hear it back, then you begin immediately to worry that the love you have just found, you will lose. And so all action becomes reaction – defense against loss – even as you seek to defend yourself against the loss of God.

But you do not know Who You Are – that you are the most magnificent, the most remarkable, the most splendid being God has ever created -you would never fear. For who could reject such wondrous magnificence? Not even God could find fault in such a being. But you do not know Who You Are, and you think you are a great deal less. And where did you get the idea of how much less than magnificent you are? From the only people whose word you would take on everything. From your mother and your father.

These are the people who love you most. Why would they lie to you? Yet have they not told you that you are too much of this, and not enough of that? Have they not reminded you that you are to be seen and not heard? Have they not scolded you in some of the moments of your greatest exuberance? And, did they not encourage you to set aside some of your wildest imaginings.

These are the messages you’ve received, and though they do not meet the criteria (gene inserts – the Highest, Grandest, Clearest – from a previous post and page 5 of book 1), and are thus not messages from God, they might as well have been, for the have come from the gods of your universe well enough. It was your parents who taught you that love ws conditional – you have felt their conditions many times – and that is the experience you take into your own relationships. (gene inserts, into adulthood). It also the experience you bring to Me?

From this experience you draw your conclusions about Me. Within this framework you speak your truth. “God is a loving God”, you say, “but if you break His commandments, He will punish you with eternal banishment and everlasting damnation.

For have you not experienced the banishment of your own parents? Do you not know the pain of their damnation? How, then, could you imagine it to be any different with Me? You have forgotten what it was like to be loved without condition. You do not remember the experience of the love of God. (gene interjects, go read my two light globe stories if you have not, THAT is the feeling I had in their presence, unconditional, complete, utter love – I KNOW it exists, I have felt it, for but brief moments but I am witness to this truth, it is why I am here now writing this to you, to bear that witness) And so you try to imagine what God’s love must be like, based on what you see of love in the world.”

And now, I’m going to skip, but recommend you buy or borrow book 1 and read the rest of this for yourself. Or maybe I’ll come back to it another time, giggle, but I do recommend every soul on the planet read this book, own it and make it your own, it will free your soul and your love, I promise. So, skipping to the top of page 19, God is going to tell us how to tell the difference between a thought based in love and one based in fear. It is marvelous language, a marvelous idea, and I believe it is gospel truth.

“Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals.

Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

Every human thought, word, or deed is based in one emotion or the other. You have no choice about this, because there is nothing else from which to choose. But you have free choice about which of these to select.”

So there, does the subject line answer itself for you? Yet, we have so far to travel on this path we are on. We are choosing fear, ever more often, around the world. We fear other countries, we fear other ideas, we fear our neighbors and we fear ourselves. Our love IS conditional, upon behavior, upon the other – person, country, organization – behaving as we wish them to, if they do not, we withdraw our love and no longer call them friend. Isn’t it time that we begin to recognize the ultimate futility of such behavior? Isn’t it time that we examine what our fear has brought us to? The “cold war” may have ended, but the killing has not. It isn’t democracy-communism any longer that struggle against each other in fear, it is religion against religion. The great conflict of this century is Islam-Christianity. But I want to ask why does it have to be either? Why does one side have to “win”? And what does winning actually mean if it does not result in a wave of love washing the bloodstains from this world of ours? I submit that religion has served us badly. That it has promulgated a vision of our Creator that serves the purposes of men, not God. I submit that God spoke the truth to Neale Donald Walsch in books 1 and 2. I submit that if we re-member, as He will teach us through reading those books and absorbing the love with which He wrote them, that we can change our idea of our Creator. That we can leave the notion of an angry judgmental entity just waiting for us to make a mistake so that He can hurt us forever, far, far behind us. I think that when we accept the truth of who we really are, children of the most magnificent entity that has ever existed, and that the love He has for us IS unconditional, that we are engaged in an experience from which the ONLY escape, is a sentence to return to the love from which we came, that we can begin to understand just what a special place we have here, what a special opportunity in this time, to begin a movement that can sweep the world, that can sweep fear from this world. A movement that can let us see each other as we truly are – not Christian, not Muslim, not Buddhist, not black, not white, not brown, not yellow, but as souls, having an experience of life in the flesh, and then, maybe then, we can lift our veils just enough to see the light of love that shines within us all. Those globes of pure love I saw, didn’t emerge from thin air. They emerged from within me. And, I tell you that same energy, that same love IS alive in each and every soul on this planet. We are ALL children of a loving God. I’d like nothing more than to see us start acting like it. It isn’t a matter of “faking it till you make it” either. Because, when you look deep within you, you will FEEL the presence of that love, you see it in the eyes of your children, your mate, your friends, now see it in the eyes of EVERYONE you meet. See first a child of love, then a human being. If you will do this it will change your life forever. And then, we can change life on this planet forever. There is no apocalyptic end coming, though there is a time coming when love will rule this planet, that will never come about by violence, violence is fear expressed. Peace is love expressed. When we regard everyone and everything with love, we will have peace on our world. I have a LOT more to say about this, giggle, and a blueprint to follow as I say it. But it starts with each of us. I’ve added an url to my blogroll, Blessed Unrest. I encourage you all to watch it. It is only a few quiet minutes long. But it is the first step on the road to heaven on earth. We CAN create that here. We will. If we have the will. And I believe we do. I believe in YOU. much love, :^) gene