Love or fear? The choice is yours.

Every action taken by human beings is based in love or fear, not simply those dealing with relationships. . . . Every human thought, word or deed is based in one emotion or the other. You have no choice about this, because there is nothing else from which to choose. But you have free choice about which of these to select.

A child stands up for her beliefs at school and is verbally abused and harassed by parents and students of another religion.

Business owners and government officials take actions to clear Asheville’s downtown area of so-called “undesirables.”

Agents of the federal government execute another human being in the name of justice.

What do the actions above have in common? Were they taken out of love or fear? And, yes, these are the only two choices we humans really have in our entire bag of tricks, with every other way of being a derivative of one of these. (more…)

Saturday, June 16th, 2001