Are You Scared to Receive?

Are you scared to receive? To receive might just undo a carefully constructed sense of being in control, but little drops of love open the rustiest of doors. 

I know someone who is very generous to me. In fact, this website and my ability to get content out is only possible due to their technical wisdom and support.

He has a very generous lifestyle.

But what is it like to receive when you know you know that you can’t respond in like fashion?

We live in a very transactional world.

• You do this for me and so I must do that for you
• You work so many hours and so here is the financial compensation for the giving of that energy.
• You do the crime; you do the time
• You made your bed now you have to sleep on it
• It’s justice and retribution, not mercy and grace
• Black and White
• In or out

We like it that way because we like straight lines. Fairness, balance, correctness, energy out, energy in.

And then someone says ‘I love you’ and you have no words to respond.

 

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