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Are you feeling the weight of fear and uncertainty? Fear has shaped our national mood and has been hanging over us for years. We’ve been conditioned to worry, but what if that was changing? Imagine loosening your grip on worry and moving toward peace — toward trusting Jesus more than the chaos around you. Can you see yourself embracing a shift, one where fear gives way to a deeper sense of hope and calm in him?
Dangers of Reactive Thinking
We’re born ready-made with a predisposition toward the negative, which motivates us with an urgency the positive rarely equals. I think this is why religious leaders and politicians place so much emphasis on the negative, on fury and fear-mongering. They know what moves us. If they can scare us or make us angry — fear and fury are twins — they can push us wherever they want us to go.
The Ground Beneath is Holy
The birds are too quiet for me to hear, with the nearby rush of traffic ... But I feel their song, the declaration of all creation: I am here; we are all here; all that is here belongs.