Friday, February 15, 2008

It's All About Love

I really like St. Valentine’s Day! It may have something to do with the fact that my preferred Love Language is Gifts (not familiar with Love Languages? See Marcia Walker’s blog beingyoubeingus.blogspot.com) But it also is about the importance I put on Love as an energy in our world.

According to the folks involved in “A Course in Miracles” all the emotions we experience can be boiled down to two – love and fear. Every response we have comes from one of those places. If we accept that premise, we can preview any situation by imagining what will happen next if we respond from love and then if we respond from fear. We can envision our reaction, the other person’s response to our reaction, and so on until we know the end result of coming from love or coming from fear.

This process gives us a lot of freedom as we make our way through the world or through our day. We always have a choice about how we handle a situation. We can escalate a bad circumstance by choosing fear, or we can have a positive effect on ourselves, other people, and the world by deciding to let love be our guiding light. Regardless of what happens TO us, we get to make a conscious decision regarding how we respond.

So even though it’s not technically St Valentine’s Day any more, try coming from a place of love today, no matter who you’re with or what you do or what happens to you. Let me know how it goes! Blessings, Annie

1 comment:

Marcia Walker said...

Thanks for the reminder boiled down simply to "will I respond in love or fear?" Kind of puts things in perspective!