Fear Sees Walls
moving from fear to Love
Beloved,
Fear wrote a book about you. It’s very short. It reads,
“One day our beloved came up against a wall. Our beloved thought, “Well, it must be there for a reason!” and then our beloved went back from whence they came. The End.”
Whether it’s a true story or not, Fear wants you to convince you that obstacles are evidence that you’re going the wrong way. That the walls are there for a reason and you should listen to their reasoning:
it’s too dangerous
you don’t have what it takes
it won’t turn out the way you think you’ll fail
you’ll embarrass yourself and others
..and so on and so forth.
Fear has one hundred reasons why you should stop.
But what if obstacles are there for a reason, but not the one Fear wants you to believe?
What if obstacles are evidence that you’re on the right path?
To be confronted by a wall means you’re attempting to grasp a wisdom that is not easily attainable, like a new skill, talent, insight, perspective, revelation, and it’s in the overcoming (or going through) that we are transformed into something new. The walls are our teacher.
Love sees hope in these walls because Love sees past the wall to the transformed you on the other side of it.
Love also wrote a book about you.
It’s very short. It reads,
“One day our beloved came up against a wall. Our beloved thought, “Well, it must be there for a reason!” and our beloved understood the wall was evidence that they were on the right path to becoming the person they always hoped they could be. The End.”
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.
seems like "insecurity" is more what you describe vs fear -- all the "I" statements.
confidence often comes from inner knowing which comes from self love.