I recently visited Chicago for the first time in my life. After hearing and visiting many sites about Chicago, I finally started on my adventure. Of course, most of the time what is on all the sites and pictures does not give a good portrait what you will actually see. I also tried Chicago Style Pizza. I am used to ordering a Pizza with thin crust and they ingredients are place on top. The Chicago Style Pizza is a Pie, cheese on the bottom and thick crust. As I looked, I thought “What are all the ingredients, what are all those meats involved?” I don’t know about you, but I taste something new and good, I want to know the ingredients? Have you ever noticed that before the Pizza is made, there are all these ingredient to the side. You can see them, label them and know them. But once they are baked in a oven, they come out as one. You can’t see the ingredients without dissecting it..

I have been engaging on the Conversation of Love and Fear recently. What I began to wonder is “What are the ingredients to Love?” I know the scriptures declare “fear hath torment, and there is no fear in love.” What is the anatomy of Love? What is the anatomy of fear? I grew up in the Word of Faith background and was taught strongly that fear is the enemy. We are told to resist it! I would pray, “Spirit of fear, I rebuke you….God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power, love and sound mind.” Oddly, I was going crazy, and loosing my “Sound” mind trying to rid myself of fear. Focusing on Fear creates more fear in your life. I was told “fear is absence of faith.” If I don’t know what Faith is, nor what fear is, I am brought into a world of chasing symptom, after symptom; never dealing with the root.

There is NO Fear, not one ounce in Love. The Original Greek gives many defined meanings for “fear.” One is “timidity.” God has not given us a spirit of timidity. One of the Greek words is Phobias, where we derive our English Word “Phobia.” The Anatomy of fear is that it is speculative, questions everything, resistance is at its core. When you resist fear out of what the fear will bring, it will produce and reinforce your fear. People who fear death find themselves in a state of grief over death till they die. Fear is the perceived absence of Love. It started with Adam who said “I was naked and afraid.”

Love has one central nature and function: ONE. Love is composed of many ingredients we cannot dissect and interpret. Like that Italian Pizza Pie, it is ONE. It has occurred to many recently that some people feel the focus of Inclusion is the examination of the ingredients. I feel that we are sometimes arguing over recipes. There is a vast world out there that is desperately searching for the God who is Love. Many speak of the “Death of God” or the “Disappearance of God”, this is due to the breakdown of all human conditioning that attempts to live out of a Phobia for God.

I lived for years as a “Christian” where my only motive was “fire Assurance.” I wanted to “gain Heaven, and miss Hell.”

When we begin to experience the death or disappearance of a God who will

Send you to a eternal customized torture chamber. We will find that as we see Love, we will see the spontaneous removal of fear. Perfect Love CASTS out fear! Fear is a intruder, it is all private property. It has crossed boundaries and run as a tyrant through the land. Why? There is a lack of PRESENT Love. We should Love one everyone based on the present reality instead of who they were in the past. Fear breeds when we speculate about God inability to Love everyone! God is now, not past or future, because neither exist in the present.