Our weekly church bulletin includes a flyer called The Faith Connection. The theme of this week's flyer is fear and how God's love can help dispel fear.
One mini-essay discusses two different kinds of fear: a violent fear that causes ours hearts to pound and palms to sweat and a subtle, quiet fear that can choke our lives. The essayist's cautions us that the quiet, subtle fear can cause paralysis, can cause us to not do things for fear of the consequences. It robs us of our freedom to act.
The writer teaches us that to short-circuit this vicious circle we must reach "outside of ourselves".
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