FEAR

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

A writer once said.
What have we got to lose?

Fear.................
It could twist and crumble the greatest minds,
Make a jumble of the greatest thoughts,
Make a riddle of the greatest ideas.
With it's wake of sinister visits, it drags above us a black cloak of doubt which leaves us cocooned in our insecurities.
We in our ignorance let it entwine into our belief systems and sets the basis for everything we do.

It has walked the face of the earth waiting for us.
And as fresh babes out of the womb, our first actions are tiny wails as this fear grips us and hits us with goose bump realities of the harsh place we find ourselves.

The Voice..............
It keeps at it, on and on,
Questioning and pointing out odds all day long.
Can you really make it?
Have you got what it takes to beat it?
Is your bark strong enough to weather it?
The Voice never stops ringing,
The questions never stops coming,
The answers not forth coming,
Its echo sends long lasting shiver down our spines that surfaces in our subconsciousness.

The Feel........
Faced with our greatest challenges,
We stop even before we've started.
Seeing ourselves through a fear driven subconscious mirror reflection,
We fail ten times even before we've started.
The cherished pad of visions we carried now left soaking in mud puddle at the start line, our backs turned, ready to leave that piece of our destiny behind.
We are stuck in epic moments of

I can't do this.

Hands sweating, feet shaking, minds so cloaked with fear so that the only thing which makes sense is an unearthly force to will the earth part in two beneath our feet and sink us in.

A great writer once said

courage is not the absence of fear but the will to continue in the presence of fear.

Conquerors.................
A faith that refuses to quit makes us conquerors.
That faith made strong by One so superior.
When I stand at the start line ready to drop my vision pad,
When stuck in the middle left with no strength,
When the goal slips beyond my reach,
He brings flashes of memories fast spilling across my thoughts.

Remember I promised I will be with you.

These memories spill like new wine
And as I look to see through this time line,
Each mile stone flows by causing a swirling current of hope that spreads through my being and unclasps the gnared fingers of the fear that once gripped me.

Hey!!!
Don't look for me at the start line.
I'm flying round the bend corner on the race track ready to hit the finish line.
That fear voice still rings loud
And the feelings still hit hard
But they are drowned by one voice that matters.
It beckons,
Feel the fear but don't let it guide you.
We are more than conqueror through Christ.