"There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life, - fear of death, fear of judgment - is one not yet fully formed in love."Wow! I can completely relate to that! I fear a lot of things. My last blog was about fear. It's scary to think that my fear is keeping me from loving fully. The other part that got me was,
"If [I] won't love the person [I] can see, how can [I] love the God [I] can't see?"That's really profound to me. If I can't love the people I am with, how can I fully love God? God says to do both. And Man, that's hard sometimes. I want to love unconditionally, and without restraints.
Then today, I struggled with the question how? God tells me to love everybody. So what happens when I don't know how to love someone? What happens when I don't know what a person needs? How can I know how to love them fully, without restraint? I can love them how I feel like they might need it. But what if that's not how they need love? What if that's not enough?
Hmmm, I guess all of these questions come from fear. I'm afraid of not doing enough. Not being enough. Not showing love enough.
God, help me to love... without restraints... without fear.
