Choosing Love over Fear

The Two Forces Behind Every Choice

At the heart of every decision we make are two motivators: Love or Fear. Not the sentimental kind of love, and not the dramatic kind of fear. I’m talking about Love as a force of nature; the universal current that moves through all things. The “god in me sees the god in you” kind of love.

The Power of Love as a Creative Force

Agape love, or universal love, desires the highest outcome for all. It is a conscious choice more than an emotion.

It is a force in the universe with the power of creation. It draws people, opportunities, healing, and growth together the way gravity pulls matter into form. When we align with it, our path becomes more coherent. Life becomes less about reacting to what we fear and more about intentionally moving toward what we are here to build.

Choosing Love over Fear in Everyday Moments

When we choose to follow a passion over a “safe” path, we’re choosing Love over fear.

When we invest in our healing, growth, or education, we’re choosing Love over fear.

When we decide to treat the stranger in front of us with dignity, even the one who cuts us off in traffic, we’re choosing Love over fear.

Love Is Strength, Not Softness

Love shows up in countless ways. It’s the quiet motivation that gets us fired up about our next project or endeavour, the spark that tells us, “This is meaningful, keep going.” It’s the inner nudge that helps us stay open during a difficult conversation, allowing us to see the human being in front of us instead of the conflict. It’s the energy behind genuine service, creativity, forgiveness, and inspired action. Love shows up in the patience we extend to ourselves as we learn something new. It appears when we choose to give someone the benefit of the doubt. It lives in the way we hold hope for what hasn’t manifested yet. Every one of these moments is a choice to align with a force far greater than our fear.

This form of Love isn’t soft or passive. It doesn’t ask us to bypass reality. It’s the most grounded force we have. It fuels clarity, courage, creativity, service, truth, and movement toward what is real and aligned.

Understanding Fear as an Illusion

And here’s the pivotal truth: fear is a hollow motivator that dissolves in the presence of Love.

Fear shows up as hesitation, self-doubt, cynicism, guilt, comparison, avoidance, or the stories that tell us to stay small. The stories that tell us to build boundaries so high and so strong and so tight that we cannot escape them ourselves.  

Fear itself is not real in the way Love is real. Fear has no creative power. It cannot build, expand, or transform. At best, it is a shadow; an echo created by the absence of Love.

Living from Love

When we treat Love as the primary motivator in our lives, something shifts. Decisions become cleaner. Boundaries become clearer. Our purpose comes into view. We stop orienting our lives around avoiding what we fear, and start orienting them around what we are here to create.

Love is the force that makes life meaningful.

Fear is the illusion that keeps us from stepping into it and 

LIVING OUT LOUD

And every moment, every conversation, every opportunity, every crossroads, invites us to choose the force that shapes our future

CHOOSE LOVE 💕