Fear Wanders the Future. Love Plants Here.
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,
Fear wanders the future.
Not in any way of being helpful. Not even in any way of being hopeful. Fear wanders the future as an excuse to protect yourself from now.
Protect yourself from...
loving (they won’t love me back),
friendship (they’ll eventually leave),
vocation (it won’t work out),
desire (the pain of disappointment will be to great).
Fear isn’t interested in a life. Fear is interested in numbness... because numbness is the quiet float tank of disconnection.
And when you’re disconnected, you can’t be hurt.
Well, that’s the lie Fear keeps telling us.
Love knows that your greatest desire is to flourish... and nothing can flourish without roots. You must root in where you find yourself... even if it’s not the place you want to be.
You are not rooting in the place you don’t want to be, but you are rooting in the you now. The you that can grow.
The you that is on their way.
The you that is becoming.
To wander the future is to bypass the becoming that is happening to you now.
Plant into your becoming, and let your flourishing future be the surprise you never saw coming.
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