What marks us as human marvels?

Dear Friends,

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 choose to be true to ourself. And we know self-verification.

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. While choosing love sounds easy enough, 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 programmed to be sensitive to what threatens us. BUT we can grow beyond REACTING in fear, and RESPOND, instead, in love. Responding in love means responding in peace and quiet self-assurance, without any attachment to the consequences. When we choose love, we can trust what follows. We don’t have to wonder IF it will serve us or come back to haunt us.

We can know the ultimate in human gratification; that’s not really feeding our ego. It’s choosing love.

With smiles and hugs, I love you.