Doubt and Fear
Embracing New Friends
Now is the time when you have to learn to embrace new friends again. These friends are going to come with names like Perseverance, Character, Hope, Faith, Courage and above all Love. As we begin to move into the person, we were created to be these new friends are who we need to embrace. There are going to be days when you don’t want to embrace them, you’re not going to like some of their radical ideas. Most likely these new friends are going to seem hard to get to know. There will be days like you feel like you’re banging your head against the side of a sheer rock face hoping it will let you in so you can explore the other side.
It doesn’t matter who you’re trying to become or what you’re trying to do. Doubt and Fear cannot get you to the other side but rather than try and violently kick these two friends to the curb do something really radical. Embrace your friends Doubt and Fear and begin to influence them to change in their ways. As you embrace Doubt and Fear, not shutting them out but also not listening to their unfounded words and pictures of future doom, suddenly one of your new friends will show up more and more. This new friend will show up when you least expect them to. As you’re ascending the Wall of Death (doesn’t have to be the trail one, could be something equally as difficult like not drinking that glass of wine tonight), when you least…
