Do not interpret fear as a signal to retreat, rather it is a green light to move ahead! (Susan Jeffers)
Een aantal maanden geleden botste ik op een filmpje, een filmpje met een dans. Niet zozeer de dans sprak me aan, maar de tekst des de meer.
Bekijk het filmpje van de tekst maar, benieuwd of ook jij betoverd bent door de woorden.
De spreker, Jon Jorgenson, heeft het over angst, soorten angst en de plaats die we het laten innemen in ons leven. Het houd ons van zoveel weg. Van liefde, van success, … gewoon om onszelf te kunnen zijn en te mogen stralen.
I used to be afraid at night.
Afraid of the dark.
Afraid that just beyond the point my eyesight allowed me to see that there was something lurking.
Afraid that the darkness itself would somehow surround me and swallow me up, as if darkness were anything more than simply the absence of light.
I used to be afraid of tomorrow.
Afraid that who I was would continually dictate who I am and that who I would be might be someone who I didn't like very much at all, as if there was no such thing as being made new.
I used to be afraid of opinions.
Afraid that though words would not break my bones, they certainly would shatter my dreams, as if I started doing this for the approval of many rather than the glory of One.
I used to be afraid of failure.
Afraid of losing.
Afraid of falling.
Afraid of being wrong, creating busts, and looking absolutely stupid because who am I to think that I could ever actually make a difference? As if those setbacks were anything more than steppingstones on the path to success.
I used to be afraid. Used to. But then I did a little research. And by that, I mean I re-searched, and I re-searched, and I re-searched, over and over again, and through all of my re-searching, I kept coming up with the same exact question: What room does fear have?
What room does fear have when I cling to trust?
What room does fear have when I lean on hope?
What room does fear have when I search for something more, when I discover what's good, and when I stand in awe?
When I run with perseverance, when I walk by faith, and when I rest in comfort.
What room does fear have when I sing with praise, when I take hold of inspiration, explore the possibilities, and step into freedom?
What room does fear have when I discover strength, embrace courage, remember peace, declare truth, choose joy, experience life, and conquer death?
What room does fear have when I find perfection in the one place I never thought to look?
In weakness, when I'm saved by the most unlikely of heroes.
By grace, when I'm invited into a relationship more loving and intimate than I could ever imagine as a child of God.
I'll ask you again:
what room does fear have when I step out of the darkness, and I bask in the light?
When I let the past be the past and the future has no limit.
When they can talk all they want but their opinion doesn't matter.
And when failure is nothing more and nothing less than the road by which I walk my path to success.
I'll ask you one last time:
what room does fear have when in His Word - He tells me threehundred and sixty-five times, do not be afraid.
As if I needed to hear that every single day.
And as if that's how many times I needed to hear it before I finally believed it.
What room does fear have when I make room for love?
What are you afraid of?
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