In a world that tells you all the reasons to be afraid, choosing love is an act of courage.
When faced with uncertainty love will ask you to grow, encourage you to be self-aware and request you show up with consciousness.
When life gets rough fear will tell you to toughen up, go hard, shut down, judge, criticize, shame, and blame.
I have found myself in the middle of a maelstrom of fear, suddenly bewildered at how lost I had become. Even if you get lost in the muddle of fear, you can still choose love.
Stop. Breathe. Soften.
Connect to your heart and find your way out.
Love doesn’t demand you always get it right, she doesn’t expect you to be perfect. She’ll welcome you with open arms when you look her way.
Take a step in her direction.
Love will ask you to face yourself when you’ve been triggered so you can heal the wounds that have been ripped open. Love will ask you to look at your beautiful bits and your messy bits with tenderness and compassion.
It takes courage you bear your vulnerable heart to another, to open yourself to being truly known, to drop from your head into your heart and trust that, come what may, you’ll be okay.
Taking a stand for love requires courage, consciousness, and commitment.
Most of us know that our world needs more love and less fear, more compassion and less judgment, more connection and less disconnection, more kindness and less snark, more responsiveness and less reactiveness.
Most of us know the world needs us to remember love.
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