I've been reading Spiritual Classics...actually I've only read one author but that's because it was so great I can't move on until I talk about it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes the follow:
"A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because thy move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's.
But how does one learn this technique of the dance? Why is it so difficult? What makes us hesitate and stumble. It is fear, I think that makes one cling nostalgically or clutch greedily toward the next . . . But how to exorcize it? It can only be exorcized by its opposite, love. When the heart is flooded with lover there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation. And it is this lack of fear that makes for the dance. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music-then, and then only, are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm."
I realized how beautifully true this is. The reason why we aren't completely open and vulnerable with people is because we're afraid. Call it cliche if you like but we cannot move beyond the fear of rejection. But don't you remember this passage: "Perfect love casts out all fear." We are not perfect and neither is our love; but God's love is.
God has been teaching me to be honest with people, to share my story even though it is painful. And it's been amazing. I have the greatest friends ever and I wish there were words to say thank you to them and to my amazing God.
I pray that we go forth and fear nothing. I pray that we remember that Christ in us is invincible. (I took that last line from a friend).
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