Glenna Heller

Love dispels fear is a line from A Course in Miracles. I carefully copied it onto several 3 X 5 cards and had them displayed wherever I would be sure to see them. After all, I was without work and had no job prospects. Bills were mounting, and I had no other source of income. Moreover, I had made arrangements to see my sweet friends in Los Angeles, Ray and Joy, and then fly out to Colorado to be with my daughter and grandchild. Though I looked forward to the trips, they just added to the expenses, giving me more reason to be afraid. Whenever I considered the cost, fear swelled from my solar plexus, up through my throat. I was hoping that the words staring back at me from one of the 3 X 5 cards were true. Hope. From this point with my experience so far in dispelling fear, that was about the best I could muster.

Weeks passed. No work. Several weeks more. Nothing. I filled my daytime hours with job searching and my late afternoon and evenings with progressive writing of, Five Steps to Forgiveness…and Why? The miracle started there. Each time I took up that work, the fear became a scant memory. Certainly, the writing was a mission of love and I couldn’t help but notice that the message on the 3 X 5 card near my computer was taking a powerful hold in my life; yes, love was beginning to dispel fear.

I arrived in Los Angeles in the early evening. The sometimes harsh 6-hour drive from Santa Cruz had been a remarkably easy one, filled with revelations amid gorgeous sea and landscapes of the California coast. The moment I walked into Ray and Joy’s spacious apartment on the beach, I knew without question that I was on a purposeful mission. The love I received from them surrounded me till I giggled, making the work we had to do together a complete delight. Over several days of basking in their love and seeing a way in which I could contribute to them as well, the fear I had experienced just a short time before moved far outside of my present reality. Four days of continuous living in their light and I was off on my next trek – my darling daughter and grandchild in Colorado. I had reserved enthusiasm in meeting her new sweetheart and partner.

The miraculous healings that occurred in Colorado are substance for another writing, Holy Spirit in Action, so stay tuned! I had no idea that The Presence worked in the way He did, and really cannot wait to share that miracle with you.

Love dispels fear. Not once after I accepted that premise as a possibility had I experienced fear, even though I didn’t immediately know it was true. I was willing for it to be. I became hopeful that it was true. I fervently repeated it with my eyes closed, and prayed that it would be true. I tried believing it. None of those things made any difference. What made the difference is just trusting that it was truth. Simple trust. Now, I can promise you this: If our work is love in each and every thing that we do, there can be no room for fear. It simply dissipates without effort.

As I began my new job this week, I see that this rule of living has permeated every aspect of my life. It came into being in my job and I’m clear that my new workplace family sees it too. I am so very grateful to God for the creation of life, for Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit and A Course in Miracles! I am grateful to you, the PNN reader, for an opportunity to share this, thus making it real-ly powerful in the world. My humble thanks to you.

© Glenna Heller, March 15, 2000