View from my coffee cup

I went from having my middle finger squeezed, between the seam of my garage door, to banging my husband’s car against the same garage door. So I asked myself: Why are those things happening to me?  And I recognized the fear of  loosing control had been dogging me. I had been experiencing panic about some goals I’d set; my daughter and her family were en route to visit for the summer; my book signing event was imminent; and, an authors event I planned was top of mind — and, darn it,  I showed up at the hospital emergency department with an injured middle finger.

Fear attacks all of us at the most inopportune times.

Just when we think we are on top of things, fear will show up. Nevertheless, we can allay fear if we know which fear is dogging us. Fear weakens when we identify and call it by the name it shows up as; when fear shows up, let us banish it into oblivion, where it belongs.

Olive Rose Steele is the author of: THE SOLID ROCK (Other ground is sinking sand)

 

 

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