Face Everything And Recover (FEAR)


My greatest fear is that I do NOT live to my fullest potential, purpose, and possibility. It is not dying that frightens me. It's living well. May my limited time here be filled with more love than fear. The choice is up to me to Face Everything And Recover (FEAR).

So many spiritual crises have imprisoned me with loneliness and despair. From this terrifying place, a tiny light of awakening is reborn. Out of this vulnerable place, a beautiful birth forms from this transitional death.

Broken, and in great emotional pain of I try to find my way home out of this feverish state of anxiety. Dante's tale in the Divine Comedy exemplifies this terror of being lost within our fearful inner wilderness unable to function. It is my "Dark Night of Soul" where the horror of death and the abyss of loss haunt me to my deepest core. 

Out of the storm of my emotional torment, a rainbow will arrive if only I can patiently wait. A higher power emerges. 

Star light emerges with a radiance sprouting new seeds of possibilty into potentially great saplings. The doors of death close when a magical greater purpose arises. 

There really is no beginning nor no end. Yes, our body evaporates and becomes star-dust. Once again, we are recycled carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and a host of other ingredients back into the grand cosmos.

Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, "Death..the undiscovered, country" offers a reflection of what is important. This exploration raises the very meaning roff existing. How fearless can may I face my this mystery? 

Transformed out of a black hole, a sunriseit is reborn. I am simply star-dust blowing in the cosmic winds of time and space. May I Face Everything And Recover (FEAR) furthering my purpose, potential, and possibility.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for having in it  - A. Lincoln.

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