FEAR or F.E.A.R?

FEAR, or F.E.A.R? What is fear? Can you hold it? Can you touch it? Can you show it to your best friend? &In your head as you are reading, I can almost hear you saying, "No, no, &no." The question now is "Why? Why do we have fear?" Fear is NOTHING more than an emotion or feeling in our minds. Some fear the emotional or physical pain that they may cause others, or others may cause them. Here`s the problem: These emotions and feelings affect the way we live our lives. We fear doing certain things because we are scared of failing. This may be due to the past failures we have actually experienced, or the failures we might experience. &If you think about it, most of the things we fear, hasn`t even happened yet! Your mind has a hard time determining whether you have actually experienced the failure, or just imagined it. Often, we imagine a failure and believe it will come true, &we stay scared because we never give it a try! If you never try, you will never succeed.

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p.s. dear self, even though i have made mistakes, i know everybody makes mistakes and nobody is perfect. &through the hardships, i will always have friends and family to lean on. i really hope that i will be able to push through all the changes, and let go of the past. i know i may fall into temptaions and i will sin, but i know that through Him, i will get through it. one day, i hope to make a difference, &everyday, i strive to be a better person. i understand situations may not always be perfect. &through all the growing &changing, i`m still finding who i am &where i stand in this. but even though my flaws and my hardships, i know my only purpose is to serve the Lord.