Fear is a universal experience, Even the smallest insect feelks it. I wade in the tidal pools of the ocean and put my finger near the soft open bodies of sea anemones and they close up.
Everything spontaneouly does that. It's not a terrible thing that I feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being in this dream of self-awareness, fear is a natural reeaction to move close to the truth.
Love of the truth puts me on the spot. This is where gentleness comes in. When things are shaky and nothing is working, I realize that I am on the verge of something new. And I think I be a good friend to myself, and everything will turn friendly.
Lead not your little life in solitude, with one illusion as your only friend. This is no friendship worthy of God's Son, nor one with which he could remain content. Yet God has given him a better Friend, in Whom all power in earth and Heaven rests.
The one illusion that you think is friend obscures His grace and majesty from you, and keeps His friendship and forgiveness from your welcoming embrace. Without Him you are friendless. Seek not another friend to take His place.
There is no other friend. What God appointed has no substitute, for what illusion can replace the truth?
Who dwells with shadows is alone indeed, and loneliness is not the Will of God. Would you allow one shadow to usurp the throne that God appointed for your Friend, if you but realized its emptiness has left yours empty and unoccupied?
Make no illusion friend, for if you do, it can but take the place of Him Whom God has called your Friend. And it is He Who is your only Friend in truth.
He brings you gifts that are not of this world, and only He to Whom they have been given can make sure that you receive them. He will place them on your throne, when you make room for Him on His.
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