NO FEAR

 

I don't know if the world could be more beautiful! It is a Sunny cool Morning, a rooster is serenading me just outside my window, and a cool breeze wafts through my window; just enough to make long sleeves feel good.

My life seems to be back to normal. I don't really know what back to normal means, life always brings us something different, something new; we can learn to accept it, as it comes, without trying to alter or shape it.

Of course we do alter or shape it with every thought and feeling we have. We change our perception by how we see it. Seeing is everything.

I was reading something yesterday and the question was raised, “What is freedom?” The answer was, “No fear.” Wow! I have heard this many, many times before and I have no question about the truth of it. This time, the truth of this, resounded through my being. I must have been sitting on a pile of fears, because I suddenly felt empty of everything but PEACE.

Fear is an intruder that warps our perception. It contaminates our illusion. It sullies and dirties our life. It can be attached to every thought and feeling. We can feel loving one minute and find ourselves struggling hellishly the next. More and more I find it is unnecessary. We don't need to indulge it. We don't need to let it in.

Life comes to us continuously. I like to say, day by day. Our nights, especially our night's sleep, seems to bring us anew. Every day is its own pearl. Every day lives on it's own. Every day is best lived without reference to the day before or the day coming. Focus on the past and future always invites fear.

Can we imagine living without fear? Can we imagine the freedom that brings? Can we imagine pouring our whole heart and soul into living every day, knowing the love of the universe surrounds us? How creative could we be living, in the freedom of love, everyday?

Looking at my day, through a window of peace, I could see the troubles of the day, were not really troubles, they were tasks that enhanced learning. When we take away fear, events are just events, and we may even see the love that surrounds them.

Fears encourages us to defend against fear. Well you know what that means- we make it more real. We learn to fear fear. Wow, what a trap! Better, to realize fear is unreal. It is an invention of our separation. It reinforces our separation and it is totally unreal; and so is our separation, of course. We end up, unknowingly, pursuing fear.

Let's pursue joy instead! Joy is real! Joy is of the universe. We can see it in the flowers. We can see it, gazing at the stars. Joy is everywhere. We can see it when our minds are at peace.

Over and over we discover that peace, joy and love are the same state of mind- just different flavors. We achieve one and the others are ours.

On this marvelous Friday, I wish you, “No Fear”

Love, Peace, and Joy are flooding in, let it fill your day!

Love and Peace, Gregg