Fear Hates Adventure
a series to move from fear to love
Beloved,
Of course you’re afraid. You’re about to be transformed.
Every adventure you’ve ever witnessed was about a hero being transformed. If they knew what it would entail beforehand, they would absolutely have said no, because who in their right mind would choose the dying of what they know? But if you asked them on the otherside of transformation if they would go back to the way things were before... Well...no one actually knows what they said because stories of people choosing not to transform are never passed from generation to generation.
The goal of a human life is to transform. Not to transform out of a human life but to transform fully into it.
Surely you have felt this invitation.
I know it calls you.
A caterpillar isn’t done yet, and neither are you.
The only thing preventing you from the hero’s journey is the lack of control you have in trading your dying self for whatever the transformation wants to give you.
“What will I be like on the otherside.”
Only the Architect of your transformation can tell you.
I do not know the details of your adventure. I cannot speak to the particular internal conversation of your human life. I don’t know what you will lose. But I can assure you that if we could pull back the curtain of your adventure, like Dorothy did on hers, what we’d find is that the architect of your transformation is not a malevolent imposter but is in fact Love itself.
The move from Fear to Love is to allow the mysterious unknown before you
(aka your life, aka your adventure) to be the way in which you come to know Love.
Because to know Love is to be fully human.
And Love is constantly orchestrating your homecoming.
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.
