Confronting our fears and anxieties is a skill that needs our life time's attention, never lost on those who come to terms with our journey's invitation not to flee from that which grows us out of our fear of failing.
‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.’ – Bilbo Baggins (Tolkien)
All roads lead us to our destination more so the journey that provides us with the adventure of our life time, growing us out of our fear that we may not survive our next encounter waiting to confront us on the other side of the hill. Despite which the determined explorer resists the temptation to surrender to their fears, preferring to learn what is so inviting lying just over the horizon.
“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.” ― Graham Greene
Stepping out into the unknown is life's invitation to better know who we are becoming, not lost on those who find ourselves lost in an adventure that develops our wherewithal to cope with every obstacle that life rewards us to discover the person breaking out of our self imposed incarceration secluded from all that our life's passage offers us to celebrate being alive.
In the Christian tradition we use the word KEY to provide us with an understanding of that which enables each, and every human person to escape from ones self imposed bondage to fear, to embrace the call of The Saviour to "follow me."
The mould in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions.Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
The great Persian poet, Rumi often writes of the key to our freedom from fear: You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it.
When speaking of light, and darkness there is an understanding that balance is achievable when facing our fears, and embracing the encouragement of the Divine Presence to let Him provide us with a light that will lead us through our periods of darkness.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. ~ Psalm 119:105
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