Make Fear Your Friend. Turn to Christ.
Not all fears are irrational.
In fact, to have no fear at all, at this point in the coronavirus crisis, would either be the side effect of thoughtless irrationality or else a chemical-induced nerve numbing.
Now, for some people, such ignorance is bliss. To not know is to not fear. But this logic runs counter to another common belief about our fears: we think it’s the unknown that we’re truly afraid of.
But I’m a skeptic.
As we deal with perpetual unknowns, unanswered questions, looking for a vaccine and lacking testing, we might miss the fact of what really scares us: we’re more afraid of what we do know.
Runaway Train
What we know is that each of us is traveling on a runaway train that is hurtling toward a bridge-less divide. We can’t stop it; we can barely hop...