The creative process of life is all about love. When we consider that so many of us yearn for love in our lives, it seems amazing that we’re so hesitant to live in a way that could spread it all over the world. I believe that we’ve resisted creating an open and trusting society because we’ve been limited by a natural, protective layer of fear.
This world has seen so much fear. It’s so easy to create and so hard to undo. Somehow our minds hold on to fear more easily than love. We value fear as a reasonable response. We laugh at love as a vulnerable feeling. So many of us find it hard to believe that love could be a solution for anything, and yet that is what we all crave—even though some don’t want to admit it. That would mean we’d have to acknowledge our own vulnerability. No one likes to see his or her self as vulnerable, but that is really what we are.
It takes courage to look into what’s holding us back from creating a more harmonious world. It takes admitting and confronting our fears on a personal and societal level before we can disentangle ourselves from the dysfunctional complexities in our lives. Only then, when we are each ready to face our own struggles head on, can we begin to ease any suffering and gradually experience relief.
A reason why
It’s natural to wonder why we have to go through this demanding, educational process in life, especially when it can sometimes cause us such distress. It would be so much easier to just live and let live. But this is what we’re given; we didn’t create the way the world works. When these challenges come they usually stretch us in ways we often can’t understand while we’re going through them. It’s only after we’ve resolved any difficulty that we get to see how much we’ve learned and how much better things can be on the other side of it.
Once we’re ready to accept that we’ve each been given a unique and precious life for a reason, we can start to discover—even through the challenges—that there’s a more enlightened way to be our full self and to succeed in whatever we attempt to do.
Every one of us is born into a space that we have to rise above; when we’re ready to learn from our mistakes and gradually overcome any obstacles life sends our way, each new lesson we’re given can increase the possibility that our challenges will finally cease, never to happen again in our own or our children’s lifetime. As we gradually develop the strength to work through and overcome any negative pressures in life, we can create more positive experiences that will allow love to flourish.
(Excerpt from The Way The World Works – Myra Estelle)