Fear feels heart break
moving from fear to love
Beloved,
Fear loves a broken heart.
Fear loves the justification for closing Itself off from any kind of loving connection. Fear can then build walls. Harden up. Protect Itself from any kind of new venture. A broken heart is all Fear needs to win the argument that safety is found in a life of solitude.
Until you feel that beating heart in you.
Question:
Who gave you your heart?
Did you choose it?
Are you in charge of keeping it going?
Do you realize your whole existence is
maintained by something you’re not in charge of?
Love feels the heart beat because Love is inviting us into the reality that nothing can truly break us from that beat.... meaning we’re still here and we still have something to give.
Fear argues that heart break means you’re over.
Love whispers to you that you’re still here.
The beat keeps going.
There is more ahead.
You’re never over.
Don’t get me wrong. A myriad of songs have been written about the experience of heart break. But they were all written by the heartbeat of women and men who found themselves on the other side of their heart break. They weren’t over. In fact, it became the way in which they connected to others again.
The heartbeat they weren’t in charge of let them know this.
This is part of a series of prayerful hand gestures representing a move from Fear to Love.
I started developing these at a certain season of my life where I was overwhelmed by anxiety and fear. Fear is the opposite of Love. It draws us away instead of drawing us in. It builds distrust instead of developing trust. It alienates instead of consummates (can I say that? Just really got into the rhyming bit). Fear was selling me narratives all day long about how nothing was going to turn out and I was all alone in it. I knew I needed to move from Fear to Love.
According to the holy scriptures, God is Love. So when we endeavor to listen to the Voice of God we are listening to the Voice of Love. I wanted to move from the arguments of Fear to the invitation of Love. I needed some new and specific prayers.
But word prayers were not enough. The anxiety was in my body and so my body needed a way to pray as well. I started to take the arguments of Fear and embody them through hand gestures. Then I came up with a corresponding hand gesture for the invitation of Love. I began doing these throughout they day whenever I felt overwhelmed by Fear and anxiety... and they really worked for me.
All these prayers are collected in an ebook available here.
Love whispers you’re still here.. there is more ahead.
Words of truth I needed to hear today. Thank you