I'm spiritual director JR Mann.
Welcome to your life's work.
Today's meditation,
Be not afraid.
We are told fear not,
But not told what the deeper movement will be to get us there or what to expect as a result of fearing not.
Moving through fear means understanding heartbreak and right away that seems like it'll suck.
But heartbreak isn't just pain and sorrow.
Heartbreak is the ability to take in presence,
Take in love,
Who you are,
Who divine is,
And ultimately live a life undefended with nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
When we fear we protect and most often it's the heart we so desperately guard.
Making sure we are never hurt,
Betrayed,
Let down,
Abandoned,
Or forgotten.
The wisdom here can be quite perplexing because giving into the reality of heartbreak means we pay more attention to what heartbreak fosters and not simply what heartbreak feels like.
Heartbreak will have its pain but it opens you to the awareness of who you are,
Who your community is,
Who God is.
This trinity of understanding produces grace,
Mercy,
And love.
Meaning fear becomes less about protecting and more about seeing through the uncertainty of any heartbreaking circumstance.
Heartbreak has a real ironic way of tending us into being fully alive without which love never has its chance to dominate fear.
Where is heartbreak pointing you?
