If it looks like FEAR.....go that way
If it smells like FEAR.....go that way
If everyone else tells you not to go that way...go that way
If it's the most FEARFUL thing you could possibly do...go that way
When you go towards FEAR, you pass through it and the FACE of God shines upon you from the other side of an illusion (fear)...

Rainbows are there just for the Joy, like flowers, JOY, no other function.
"Where there is faith, there will be truth;

Where there is truth, there will be peace;

Where there is peace, there will be bliss;

Where there is bliss, there will be God."

Fear is only as powerful, as we allow it to be, in our lives. I know from experience, that things are never as bad as we think they will be. :)

THAT IS SO TRUE ABOUT FEAR BEING ONLY AS POWERFUL AS WE LET IT BE.BUT THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL POST ALSO.

I don't know who said it but it goes like this...

Do one thing every day that scares you! (Good things only please...)

i have had mad fear the past year and you are so right. thank you for that poem it was beautiful.

Freedom Anjel, Thank you for the poem.

For some reason Linda went into this forum for the first time this morning. I'm glad she did for she just showed me your thread.

After I got off of PTO last night and went to bed, I woke up to a bad dream that I had lost my appeal. I don't know how to put into words how I felt when I woke up, other than to say that I woke up shaking and sobbing. Thank God, Linda had her arms around me at that moment. I guess I did not know how afraid I am or how much this is already on my mind.

Then she saw this thread this morning.

Thank you,

Patti,

yuo know, with me having agoraphobia, one of the things they say is to face that fear. Boy is that easier said then done. :) I can relate to this. thanks for sharing

I am a "scaredy-cat". I admit it. I am timid and afraid of people ... (unless they are disembodied -- cyber-person or penpal) ... Friendships were never possible. It is far worse now that I have to job-search and my family is angry about the uncertainty of their future. I am not afraid of material failure -- too old for that; I am afraid of not doing right after a lifetime of false self-sufficiency. Fear is companion but no friend. It would drive me to try all the harder to be of service somehow, anywhere. Of course this would not suffice either; there is no salvation in being driven to do good by either self-importance or fear -- a very noisy thing. What changes lead into gold (and water into wine) is something different, dimly possible to give, even if you do not receive it, because it is what Spirit is made of, and we have already received it as God's children. Someday I too will assuredly experience that face to face rather than through a computer darkly. Until then, those in this upper room, having heard "Be not afraid", have our work cut out for us because many are the inmates that need to know they are also safe and loved, long before they ever arrive Home. Then in doing, joy replaces fear. As posted elsewhere, the shortest version of that ancient verse is only one line: "Where love/caring [is], God is there".