When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said “Come, make us a god who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Aaron answered them, “Take off
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The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow in the way of this people. He said: “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard
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Fear is a natural and helpful response to danger. Without it you wouldn’t be able to avoid many accidents, which might lead to injury or even death. Fear can be helpful in the first moment or two of a disaster. If a bus is barreling down on you as you’re crossing the street, fear can be a great help in making dive out of the way. But fear can get out of hand. Instead of being your servant and protecting you, fear can become your master, destroying you. There are plenty of times when fear
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I have friends, both conservative and liberal, who are focused on disasters which may await us: terrorism, government oppression, global financial collapse and anarchy, peak oil, pandemics, catastrophic climate change… the list is endless. Some of these fears strike me as more realistic than others, but I don’t know what the future holds and neither do they. We have to live as best we can in the face of this uncertainty. This is harder to do because we’re constantly bombarded by advertisements and news coverage encouraging us to be afraid, to feel helpless, and to
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Anxiety. Stress. Worry. In other words, fear. Yet if you are worried about money, it could be your very own fear that keeps you counting pennies and anxious over dollars. The impact of fear is felt in the body at a cellular level. Even when you don’t realize it, fear works on your brain chemicals
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