“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are
afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that
life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to
learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.
If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love
others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better
world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who
embrace life.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
Some mornings one wakes up
and the day lies ahead
ripe with expectation
one moves into the day like a child
who can hardly wait
for its unfolding
other days begin more ominously
dread has come
and expectation has feld
and what remains is fear
a fear
that like a grim reaper
cuts down passion and joy and hope
and leave us standing in the wasteland
frozen
afraid
of what will be
afraid of life without love
afraid that we can no longer create
no longer make life something, anything
Perhaps it was the red sun
Isn't the old biblical concept of awe about combining fear and love rather than separating them?
ReplyDeleteAlthough there are many situations where we can't receive love, I can't think of any where we can't give it. And that fills me with awe.
Love,
Chris
Well, yes, that was what the previous blog was about. In God transcendence, awe, and intimacy, love, come together.
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps, if we are deprived of love enough, we do lose some capacity to give. I am thinking of the nurture deprived babies we saw in Romanian orphanages.
Of course we always have the "love" of the sacred, so if we can tap into that....