We Are Human.

We Are Human Living in Perfect Love and Fleeing Fear.

No i feel that a lot of you are probably reading this and thinking to yourself "well yea, duh" but when we think that do we really consider what it means to be human? I don't think I really did or do most of the time, do you?

Now if you answered this question within minutes or seconds I am beyond impressed. I began thinking about this question in the summer when I was faced with feeling guilt and hurt, I never even thought about the possibility that being human played such a role on EVERYTHING. When we feel that we fall short well that's only human because we aren't expected to be perfect, instead we are made perfect in love. This doesn't always transition back into our day to day lives, whether it's failing a test, being beaten at the finish line or not reaching a goal you set for yourself we will always have a moment when we are unhappy with the outcome, it is at these moments that the idea of being made perfect in love becomes so important. Yes, I have made mistakes, I have felt guilty, ashamed, hurt, unhappy, stranded, lonely, all very familiar emotions and feelings but I can also say I have overcome those feelings by just thinking and trying to better understand PERFECT LOVE (let it just sink in). I think for a while I couldn't process this idea because so many relationships had left me feeling abandoned, hurt, upset, lonely and all that jazz so the idea of a whole, abundant, satisfying and completely phenomenal love was something that I just couldn't picture. I mean I have felt it, I had tasted and seen (and it was good). I  had found that love so satisfying so when I would search for that around my community and I wouldn't find it, I would become unsatisfied and easily lost sight of that perfect love, I stopped searching for it. Every now and then I would get a grasp of it but then it would disappear, I would stop searching for it. I became lazy. 

There is so many different ideas around perfect love and fear although both so interconnected. I would often take the phrase "there is no fear in perfect love"and question whether I was in constant fear or not. and if i was then am I not loving like I am supposed to. Then I realized that being human we are in no way expected to understand what that means, and despite learning over time we still have the tendency to fall short, which is totally ok! We ARE susceptible to hurt and pain that lies within this world and that can and mostly likely will have an affect on us, we must look past that though and ask for ignore the fact that we have been hurt, we can learn from that but we shouldn't allow that to stop us from giving people the same love we have received from our Father.  We have to give the love we are given, but we must also be prepared to receive a love back, this love won't be like our father's but it will be from him, you will taste. We need not fear the love we deserve but we should fear accepting the love we sometimes think we deserve.