Fear Hates Adventure. Love is Adventure.
During a time when I was confronted with a lot of fear, I created a series of hand motion prayers (for my own use) 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.
"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."
... come to know Love! Isn't that what we all really want - to be enveloped by Love, to be seen, to just be able to BE? Thanks, Scott, for distilling this thought in such an eloquent and meaningful way.