A Meaningful Devotion:

These thoughts from Joyce Sequichie Hifler in A Cherokee Feast of Days (pg. 54) spoke to me this week:

"Turn around right where you are and face the frightening situation, the lion, on your path. Don't waver and dodge. Look the problem in the eye and call it nothing. Speak to it in definitive words so that there is no doubt that it must go. Wisdom tells us to get out of harm's way at times, but it never tells us to weep with fear. Once we turn to face it, a quieter determined strength pours in to end the terror. Fear is terrorism. It is not running from it that cripples us but refusing to call it what it is. When fear takes over it flows through all our thinking. If we have any faith at all, it is a sacred faith, but faith will grow when we charge it with determination and powerful words."

I thought about Paul's words to the Romans, Chapter 8, "Nothing (Not ONE thing) can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

If we name our fears and threats what they are in God's eyes, "nothing", they lose their power and faith grows and deepens.