"Are we brave?" Am I brave?
A good question...one that I have had to face quite regularly over the past year or so. My fears have made me small, and have made God even smaller (cf. P. Gabriel's "Darkness").
It has been helpful for me to stop trying to psychoanalyze fear and instead to pray and no longer give the fearful thoughts any attention. I have been, in essence, shutting them out or no longer giving them an audience.
It's also been really sobering to ask God to help me give up my idols; these are the pleasures that I run to when I am afraid.
Final thought, I am shocked at how fear and anger are related. They are, strange as it may seem, intimate bedfellows. I can point to so many times when the two emotions are in the same vicinity at the same time. Coincidence?
Friday, March 31, 2006
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