Dear Friends: How do we experience the ultimate gratification?

It is not our capacity for love that marks us as human marvels. It is our capacity to choose between love and fear. We are gifted with choice, both the privilege and the responsibility.

When we choose love, we are also choosing to be true to ourself. And with that, we know self-verification, or self-esteem. When we choose fear, we know the stress of dissonance, or being untrue to ourself.

I’m so thankful that we get to choose again … and again, and again. There is nothing I’m more thankful for. Choosing love is the most glorious feeling we can know. And it’s such a simple way to live. Simple doesn’t mean easy, though.

There is no angel on one shoulder and devil on the other making a distinction between love and fear for us. Often we mask fear with justification, excuses, and blame. And we can’t actually choose love, without letting go of fear and all the self-defeating emotion it triggers.

We’re biologically programmed to be sensitive to what threatens us. BUT we’re spiritually programmed to be love. And love is unthreatened. We get to choose. Responding in love means responding in peace with quiet self-assurance, without any attachment to the consequences. We can trust what follows. We know the ultimate in human gratification. And that’s not feeding our ego. That’s choosing love.

With smiles and hugs, I love you.