Over the last few days, I met with two old seminary friends to catch up, plan, and pray. We were back on the campus of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky where we all met over 25 years ago.
It was an incredible three days and I plan to reflect on it here soon.
But for now I am back home in Indiana and thinking about how frequently our conversations referenced fears of various types ...
Fear of unknown futures, fear of failure, fear of misspending time.
As I was driving home, this thought struck home with force: Fear lives only in our imaginations.
Moving forward, I want to be on heightened guard against nursing fears of all types, big and small - they are nothing but destructive.
Faith and fear cannot occupy the imagination at the same time. The presence of one will necessarily squeeze out the other.
"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca
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