Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain
Now here's a hard one to grasp: Resistance to fear is not fighting fear, it is welcoming fear.
Our experience has taught us that fighting fear just nurtures it for we are entirely focused on our fear...on trying to rid our self of the object of our fear.
Here comes paradox to save the day! For to resist fear we only need welcome fear is a paradox. The difficulty being that paradox does not make reasoning mind sense...its stand must needs be in God's world: We welcome fear by inviting God to participate, then we follow his lead.
We go back to our entire focus being on the object of our fear, and there it is. That's the key to welcoming fear...we search our soul for the object that is causing us pause. Fear of bankruptcy? Fear of going to our grave unloved? Fear of going to our grave?
There is always an object of our fear, and the solution is the same-old-same-old...hug it and kiss it and let it go. Interestingly, the same-old-same-old can't be done all on our lonesome either...we must turn again to God.
The great stand-up-and-shout news is we have long since made our decision to turn our self over to God...so all it takes to "turn again to God" is quicker, easier, better than texting our best friend, "Help!" God's here, God is always here, help is at hand, use it, you can't abuse it!
There is a whole new world awaiting for those who cease fighting everything and everybody.
Thank you.
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