A Twelvemonth of Self Love
I want to let you in on a little secret. Fear has met it’s match. And that match is LOVE.
I had the most delicious thought come to me and lo and behold it was an ideaI simply couldn’t resist. Have you ever had an idea that would NOT let go of you? One of the reasons I started Salvation Chronicles several years ago is that I wanted to know if God-IS-Love had all the answers and if so, did it hurt at all in the process of finding out. About two months ago, not long after I saw the Dalai Lama, I decided I would start a self love project. I noticed that the thing that stands in my way of being aware of Love’s presence is usually a fear or one of the flavors of fear. I wondered what would happen if I extended love to my fears, on purpose, every day for a month. I decided to choose one fear each month and extend love to it and do this not just for one month but for a twelvemonth (that’s twelve months of course) and record my experience.
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The first fear, really took me by surprise, it was ‘fear of commitment’ (read day one here). I made a list of fears but Holy Spirit, always full of care and tenderness, had another list that will unfold
Extending love to FEAR??!!
as the months go by. The huge surprise is that this daily blogging commitment of extending love to my epic fears is turning out to be huge fun and incredibly helpful. I never thought I would read fun and fear in the same sentence. The blog may not always be fun because fear (as well as its’ other flavors of anger, boredom, annoyance, terror, stress, exhaustion etc) is, well, kind of scary and overwhelming and annoying. It trips you up or shuts you down, neither of which are fun.
Over at www.twelvemonthselflove.com I have included some help with extending love to your own fears and a few suggestions on how you can use the blog with your own walk in the world. Everybody has a fear (or annoyance or dread or panic or stress) they could live a little easier with if it turned out to be a friend instead of a terrorist with a knife to your throat.
I will still continue to post here but if it is a long time between drinks, come on over to www.twelvemonthselflove.com and see what epic fear is being loved on next.
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