Luke 2:10 · World English Bible
Luke 2:10 Meaning The Angel Said to Them
The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
What does Luke 2:10 mean?
The first word love speaks to a frightened mind is the undoing of the fear itself, for nothing true can begin while the mind still braces for attack. There is no threat in what approaches.
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The first word love speaks to a frightened mind is the undoing of the fear itself, for nothing true can begin while the mind still braces for attack. There is no threat in what approaches. The good news is not a reward earned by the worthy and withheld from the rest; it belongs to every mind without exception, because separation was never real and so no one was ever truly left outside.
Joy of this kind cannot be private. A gift that could be given to one and denied another would still be the ego's currency. This joy is for all, which is the only way anyone could have it at all.
Angel: the thought of God that reaches a mind, the voice of love speaking beneath the noise of fear Good tidings: the recognition that guilt was a mistake and not a crime, the correction offered freely to every mind
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Live Luke 2:10 today
- Make a quick list of people you have mentally sorted into deserving and not deserving. Hold the hardest name for a moment and wish them well anyway, even badly, even half meaning it.
- Say the warm thing out loud to someone today without waiting for them to earn it first. Tell a coworker what you actually think of their work, or thank the person at the register by name.
- When you catch yourself bracing for bad news, before the meeting, before you open the email, say to yourself that nothing here needs to be fought off. Then read it with your shoulders down.
Who are you still keeping off the list?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · metta
The wish for happiness is sent out with no one left off the list, not the stranger, not the person who hurt you, not yourself. Kept for a chosen few, it stops being that wish at all.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Fear comes from believing we are about to lose something that was ours to keep. See clearly what is actually yours and the bracing stops.
Tao Te Ching 5
Heaven and earth play no favorites. What is freely given falls on everything alike, with no account kept of who deserved it.
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