Confronting Our Fears

What causes our ? 

1. We our . 

2. We when our trust is . 

3. We when we do not trust in God’s . 

How do we our ?

We our when we in the Lord wholeheartedly. 

Quotes:

“Children are profoundly needy but stubbornly independent: “No!” enters their vocabulary right after “Dada” or “Mama.” They can be delightful and charming yet selfish and manipulative: “Mine” comes right after “No!” When “Mine!” doesn’t work, they throw temper tantrums, and they do this without ever having witnessed adults banging their fists on the floor and screaming bloody murder. Children don’t have to learn anger. Instead, anger can spring spontaneously from their already nascent minds. . .

And even if [children] live in an unassailable fortress, protected round the clock by loyalists who ward off all robbers, ghosts and monsters, with loved one always within calling distance, video cameras and alarms perpetually set, nightlights on before dusk, shielded from Stephen King, Walt Disney, Saturday morning cartoons, and all things creepy, they will – guaranteed – be afraid. Somehow, without anyone telling them, they know that they lived in a world that isn’t safe.” – Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry and the God of Rest