It is I, be not afraid. -- somewhere in the Bible (at the place in the New Testament where the Main Man is walking on water toward the fishermen in the boat, and they are some kind of scared when they see It coming.)
Those six words, it is I, be not afraid, are all we need to remember whenever our "worst" fear looms large. Our worst fear being whatever fear looms at the moment...a mouse in the house or bankruptcy closing in or a questionable mammogram. Makes no never mind...if fear is the response, it only grows if we start trying to talk ourselves out of it...make light, pooh-pooh, pretend it away...all are fertilizer to fear.
The instant fear inches its way into our consciousness what we need to do is exactly the opposite of what we want to do. We want to get shut of it, to close it out; we need to see it more clearly, to invite it out into the open, to look it in the eye, and to say to ourselves, out loud or silently, "It is I, be not afraid."
We are in the process of realizing our fear as God (or our good) appearing in the form of a mouse just to get our attention. Let's face it, we can believe in that which we can see, thus fear...the unseen, not so much. So as a starter, we say this to build our trust, to help us come to believe. If nothing else, it takes our minds off the mouse...and that in itself is a reason for trying it.
It is the holding on to this promise, repeating it repeatedly, that lifts our consciousness into the spiritual realm, away from the reasoning mind's fearful imagining. What we find in the spiritual realm is beyond imagining...and it is good.
Thank you.
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