"When Michelangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within the marble. God Himself had created the Pieta, David, Moses. Michelangelo's job, as he saw it, was to get rid of the excess marble that surrounded God's creation.
So it is with you. The perfect you isn't something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the holy spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self."
That feels simple.
Just let go of fear.
Starve it of attention.
Replace it with something better.
Fearful thoughts create fearful actions. Ironically, fearful thoughts and (even unintentional) actions (and non-action, which is still action) many times just get you what you're afraid of in the first place.
Sometimes it FEELS difficult to let go of fearful thoughts. The actions are simple. The difficult part for me is ignoring the fearful emotions that get in the way, sabotaging any action taken by listening to all that fear in my head!! I feel safer using my mind (than my emotions) to determine which ones to accept. It's A-list-only here, darlin'! ;) Mentally, I know that it's better to act out of love than out of fear. I know that if I want the results of acting from love I have to act from love.
I didn't build my bike thinking about and shopping for rollerskates, obviously. I thought about my bike, (dreams of chain rings dancing in my head), what I wanted it to look like, what parts I want, where to get them, where to get the best deal, where to find tools, where to work on the bike, how to do it, digging around behind bike shops and in dumpsters and on side streets, going to yellow bike. Okay, I just wanted to talk about my bike. ;) It's the cat's meow. It's not fancy at all. I just put a lot of myself into thinking about it and into enjoying it. I love my bike. Back to love.
So we know that it's better to act out of love than out of fear. It accomplishes so much. So have courage and put aside the fears. Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." If you're an adrenaline junkie, add this to your list. I feel my heart racing just thinking about it. I feel the fear coming on just thinking about being less fearful. It also helps if you have a death-wish. This way you know if you don't make it, you'll just revert to where you came from. ;)
Seriously. This is what makes life exciting.
Love is not for the faint of heart.
so love vs. fear. ..... go scare yourself and then come tell me about it. ;)
I feel like my excitement battery is overflowing and going to explode.
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