LOVE WINS.

Earlier today while driving home I saw the most beautiful, the most precious, and one of the most poignant, window stickers I have ever seen. I’m normally one of those guys who think stickers on cars are kind of funny looking no matter what they say, but today was different for me, today I read two words followed by a period symbol, as one of the most amazing combination of letters and symbols ever recorded in the history of the English language. The sticker was about the size of one’s palm, in the shape of an oval, the letters were scribed in white while the background was filled in with black. What I saw today that rang louder in my core than any church bell to date, was simply: LOVE WINS.

If you don’t take a minute to stop and really process that declaratory statement I can see how it could sound like I’m making too big of a deal over a silly little sticker, let’s take a minute and examine it together.

In this world I believe there are two competing choices in any given situation you find yourself in; you have the choice that’s rooted in love or the opposite of that, fear. This place of either love or fear is what people believe the thought behind the thought comes from, the place of the sponsoring thought. There’s a theory out there that says behind every thought you have, therein lies an even deeper sponsoring thought. The sponsoring thought is what helps us determine the outcome of our choice before we ever really make it. The funny thing is though that even when we make a choice out of fear, and make a bad decision, we immediately know it was the wrong choice. We know it’s inherently the wrong choice by how we feel; fear is an illusion that sends out different energy than love. When we make a choice out of love we immediately feel we made the correct one, we’re relieved, and like we’re complete even for just a moment in time.

I believe Love is all there really is and that fear is just an illusion.

Fear is something we have been taught from the earliest days of our life. Think back to when you were a child and you reached for the hot stove. What did your parents do to you? They smacked your hands away from it and probably scolded you some to SCARE you from touching it again, now for a long time you’ll be afraid of fire. What if you’re parent lovingly moved your hand away and taught you why it was detrimental to you to touch the stove? What then? As a child you have no fear, none whatsoever. You’ll go talk to anyone, crawl anywhere, and even eat dirt! What stopped you from doing these things? I’ll tell you what, your parents training you to believe these things were not right, telling you to grow up and stop acting like a child or act embarrassed when you wondered up to strangers in the super market. Because of our conditioning in our youth we have grown to understand that fear not a pure emotion, but actually as perceived risk due to our upbringings. Let’s look at this just a little further: Aren’t all people capable of loving at some point in their life, no matter the age of the individual? A man or woman can lose their spouse early on in the marriage but can he or she not fall in love with another? Doesn’t falling in love just kind of happen without even really knowing that it’s happening? That’s because love is natural, it’s what we are at our purest, under all the layers of perceived risk. Under every fear that we’ve been taught to fear, LOVE WINS.

As you age you can continually love people you meet but how often do the fears of your youth remain with you? LOVE WINS. I don’t fear my face sticking that way, or burning my hand on a stove top anymore, I don’t fear strangers, and I definitely don’t fear the boogie monster… as much as I used to! What’s under all of these fears, someone teaching me I should fear them; we live in a constant state of illusion, unless we chose not to. LOVE WINS.

All joking aside, the reason fear is an illusion is because it’s been taught to us and when we experience for ourselves that something isn’t bad like maybe we used to think, that thought of fear is replaced with one of understanding and acceptance. Once you can accept something for what it is, fear leaves the scenario, and if fear is gone, love is apparent. Love is underneath all of the layers of illusion, it’s at the core of the illusion, and it’s what the illusion is built on. Is not the foundation the strongest part of the house? So if Love is all there really is, think just how deep that could change how you look at the world… If you really believe that LOVE WINS. then I can promise you that your life will be deeper and fuller and more abundant than you could ever imagine. When you stop fearing things that may seem scary, or weird, or strange, and when you choose to change how you look at those things, fear suddenly becomes a thing of the past, and you see the fear of something as the illusion it creates. LOVE WINS.

As you process this and either choose to discard what I’m saying, or accept at least the thought of it as being a possibility, ask yourself one question: Why wouldn’t love win?