{"id":6104,"date":"2013-09-07T07:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:46:51","slug":"gift-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/gift-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is your gift to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fear of being abandoned. The terror of being lonely forever. The anxiety of being utterly dependent upon another. The panic of unbearable vulnerability and exposure. The dread of the looming death of yourself and everyone around you. These are the great fears that come as you wake, as you fall asleep, and as you dream through this life.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the greatest fear of all is the fear of being loved. We don\u2019t really see it this way, though. For when you are really loved, when you are entirely seen, when you are fully held, it is the end of your world as you know it. You will never be the same. You will never again be able to pretend that you are other than perfect and precious as you are. And that is terrifying.<\/p>\n

Life is always seeing you in this way.<\/p>\n

You long to be loved, to be seen, but please know that the implications are immense; they are cosmic. To allow yourself to be loved in this way a part of you must die. Everything you thought you weren\u2019t must be surrendered. You must let go of the stories of the unlovable one, the awakened one, the special one, the imperfect one, and the despairing one. Love wishes to reveal your nakedness, to remove your clothing, and to burn away all that is false and less than whole within you. What you are is a raging firestorm of creativity, sensuality, openness, warmth, and kindness. Love will never stop until you know this.<\/p>\n

In this way, love is a destructive process, for it comes to re-order everything you thought you knew. But will you step into this sweet annihilation? Yes, something will be shattered; actually, everything will be taken away. All that will be left is your wholeness and your raw, tender heart. This is your gift to this world.<\/p>\n

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