"No fear in love..."

"Let me not see
the death of the child,"
Hagar begged

and she sat,
"as it were
a bowshot away"
and lifted up
her voice...and wept.

And God said,
"Fear not..."
and God heard the
voice of the
lad...where he was.

Two thousand years,
about two thousand years....

between Hagar and
John...

for two thousand years
the message
echoed...and echoes
still.

"There is no fear in love..."

They cannot exist
together...
fear
and
love...

you love him...
you are not afraid.

or...

you are afraid...
you do not love him.

I think you know...

know, with all your being,
which of these
options
lives,
and moves,
and breathes in you,
as you,
...

love,
or fear?

If, as I suspect,
it is your love,
your mother-love,
divinely bestowed
and heaven-bestowing
then, the annointing comes
with the appointing...

the mantle of fearlessness
comes as the
unconditional,
impersonal,
impartial, 
unsheddable
garment
of motherhood.

and dear, sweet mother
you can rest upon this
timeless Truth:

"There is no fear in love..."

Do not let that slithering snake
of doubt
even
try to convince you
of its wicked,
hissing lie:

"because you love him, you are afraid."

God's promise is reliable,
dependable,
applicable,
vital.

"There is no fear in love."

Be constitutionally
fearless in this love,
be fierce in this love,
be constant,
courageous,
certain in this love
of Love.

"There is no fear in love..."

and because you are
"the image of Love,"
there is no fear in you...

This is the message of messages
from the Lord of lords...

This is the promise that reclaims
redeems,
restores
those feelings...

the ones we have been
told by that slippery,
conniving,
hissing
snake,
must be fear...

reclaims them...those
heart-celnching feelings...for Love.

Intense love,
transfixed love,
completely absorbing love,
love that has us in its
Life-grip....

Oh mother,
precious mother,
fearless mother,

"God hath heard the voice
of the lad where he is,
take up the lad
hold him in thine hand..."

In His hand he is whole, well,
perfect, safe...
a great nation

in your hand he is
fearlessly,
confidently,
tenderly
loved....

and the angel
comes and ministers
unto each of
us:

"There is no fear in Love"

This timeless promise
reaches us
in blaze of day,
dark of night...

in the wilderness or
a palace,

the temple or
a war zone....

a desert cave
or a nursery....

"There is no fear in love."

Rest mother-love
oh,
rest...

upon this
Truth,

not from
your
fear...

fear is
never
yours

love is.

.