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When Fear is Real: And other questions we try to answer.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Fear . Or more accurately, I have been thinking a lot lately about how Fear has been running my life, how it has been an undercurrent in many of my major decisions, and how it has distracted me from really living. I have a lot of ideas about this, and I’ve been challenging myself to write them out and to write about them honestly. But, in the middle of my honesty and “self reflection” I’ve come to a detour/stop. You see, Fear is not always a vague concept that is woven into a season of our life’s fabric. No, sometimes Fear is a real, visceral, confirmed and present danger. Sometimes Fear shouts at us through our circumstances, and, if we are honest, we are nodding our heads in agreement with it. What do we do when the face of Fear mirrors the reality in our life? What do we do when we have been rejected? What do we do when we face a life-changing illness? Or when we face the illness of a loved one? Or when we are told that