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And The Good News Is...: Love or Fear; Our Choice

And The Good News Is...: Love or Fear; Our Choice : This post was published in the Huffington Post on June 27. 2012:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-hunt/love-or-fear-our-choi...

Love or Fear; Our Choice

This post was published in the Huffington Post on June 27. 2012:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-hunt/love-or-fear-our-choice_1_b_1629500.html How do you want to spend the rest of your life? In what kind of world do you want your children and grand children to live - a world built on fear, or a world built on love? I believe the opposite of love is not hate - it is fear. Hate grows from fear, just as joy springs from love. Love liberates us and opens us up to possibilities; with love we can flourish. Fear makes cowards of us and as cowards; we become closed, cautious, suspicious and mean. For centuries, maybe since the beginning of humankind, the foundation of our global society has been fear. We only need to look at the wars, conflict, pain and destruction we humans have inflicted on each other and on our environment to understand that fear is the root cause. How we think matters! It is all that matters, for it shapes our beliefs, and our beliefs sha