Fear is Satan’s press secretary.
It will try to convince you of all kinds of lies.
Dread of the future is sometimes justified—
but be wary: it wants to kidnap the present.
Sit with your fear, and listen.
Do you fear losing something?
Then beneath your fear is grief.
Grieve, then, as if all is already lost.
Grief, of course, is love made powerless.
Well, we were powerless to begin with.
Let your fear sink into grief and rise as love.
Bereft now of all but love, nothing else to lose,
you are not captive to your fear.
You carry it, like a costly treasure.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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