"Fearness"

S H A D O W O F D A R K N E S S

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson

"Fear Is All In The Mind Made Up By Us"

Turning Your Fear Into Faith

Don't let your fears defeat you , All human beings do have fears even the bravest person alive but the difference is they learn to overcome those fears by focusing on the positive side.If you believed that you'll succeed that time will come but is you are a prisoner of your fears,you will be paralyzed by the ghost you had created.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Ironically, yesterday's Gospel reading was about the hemorrhaging woman I talked about in my post about the statue of Jesus in the Hopkins's administrative building with the inscription: "Come, all you who are weary."

It was a perfect reading for me yesterday because I was feeling fearful all day--unable to locate exactly what was triggering so much anxiety, but feeling panicked all the same. There was such a relief when I got to the part where Jesus turned around, saw her, and said: "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you."

In my devotional, "Magnificat," Father Simon Tugwell, O.P. writes:

Faith punctures the self-sufficiency of our world, so that there is room for God to be God. Perfect charity is when that puncture has become all-embracing, so that we are nothing but space for God to be God. All that we find in ourselves is God being all in all. ... And by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we too are drawn to be displaced from ourselves, so that we might live "no longer for ourselves but for him," and that God may be at the center of us, "more intimate to us than we are to ourselves."

Somehow I always forget--when I'm in that panic spot--that I'm never truly alone. God is always with me, and especially on the darker days when I doubt the power of goodness and love.

Face your fears,have courage...fear is only in the mind

"Everyone Has Their Own Fears... Not Just You "

To be a burden to anyoneI'm not sure if it's because I don't have the guts to put anyone in any kind of discomfort or that I am just too stubborn to depend on anyone. Either way, I don't want to…

To lose someone that I loveI know a lot of people share this sentiment but it makes me think sometimes, are we really afraid to lose these people or are we just afraid of the pain we are going to go through? Either way, I don't want to…

To die youngI am too selfish because I still want to experience and see so much or I know that I still have a lot of things to do for everyone, especially to those I owe my life to.

Either way, I don't want to…

To be helpless and useless(This doesn't go vis-à-vis with number 1. To be put in a situation where I can't help or be of any use to anyone not because of physical inability but due to circumstances that are beyond my control. ) Or because of the lack of self-respect it will cause me or because of the effect it will have on the people around me.

Either way, I don't want to be…

To end up either in a hospital or prisonAfraid of everything that I would have to go through in such a place or afraid because of the pain it will bring to those dear to me.

Either way, I don't want to…

To grow old aloneWhy? Because it is surely going to be bloody lonely or it's just because it's too damn boring to go to bed at night, wake up in the morning, do your stuff all by yourself.

Either way, I don't want to…

RegretI'm afraid of being in a situation thinking, "if only…" Maybe it's because I don't want to miss out on anything or maybe it's because I just don't have the courage to say no.

Either way, I don't want to…
To be fooled… yet againEither because I don't want to subject my heart and my soul to such kind of pain or I'm just afraid to lose my ability to trust.

Either way, I don't want to be…

Snakes, sharks and crocodiles.Just because I've seen too many movies and documentaries, read a lot of news about these creatures eating people like a piece of steak or just because they look pretty horrible to me.

Either way, I don't like them…

The Ocean Because its too vast, too mysterious and I know its beauty kills or because I freak out the moment my feet can't touch the ground due to the fact that I can't swim. Either way, I'm afraid of it…I am afraid of many things. I am afraid because these things are way beyond my control. I believe that there are aspects in my life that I can't do anything about. But for now, I only concentrate on things that I can do something about and leave the things that I can't to SOMEONE who can.