Fear constructs walls, builds silos, resentments, competition, anger, contention, a feeling and need to justify. Love lets all of those go. If I forgive others their beliefs imposed on me, I can more easily forgive myself, and if one day I discover they had some truth, I can easily return to it. If you forgive me for what I believe, and are patient with me, then you will be more easily able to forgive yourself if you one day find there is some truth. Love lets you accept things freely, to take, to taste, to try, to leave, to embrace. Fear says "I must." Love says "I want." Fear is very "adult," love is childlike and playful. Fear creates compulsions, neurosis, and addictions. Fear is death of the divine. Love lives. Fear puts you into a prison in which you reside worlds without end, until you have had enough of the prison. Until you are ready for grace to live and abide in you. Until you are ready to exit through the unlocked bars of hell1 into the halls of heaven. We are living in eternity now.

 

Notes

1. In one sense, the prison is unlocked. In another sense, it is locked but we have the key. In another sense it is locked and we have no key, but when we change an agreement we have made, the bars begin to bend.