Fear and Courage
“What do you fear the most?”
“How do you conquer fear?”
These are two of the most common questions people usually ask each other… cause, maybe, we people are really not that strong, that we need to depend on others, that we hunger for something, maybe these are the reaasons why sometimes, we are afraid.
Like, hmmnn, Im usually terrified before conducting presentations, especially to “oldies”… but it’s part of my job so i need to conquer whatever negative vibes, nerves, am having and just go… but also, there are moments when I get anxious for no reason at all — which started about two years ago — and which, am still trying to conquer now.
So, the homily in tonight’s mass hit me hard… it’s about reasons to be courageous. Father Ryan said there are two kinds of fear — the normal and the abnormal. Normal, he said, is like when you go to the forest and you’re terrified of snakes. Abnormal would be staying in your room, and thinking there are snakes under the bed, and getting terrified. To me, it sounded like abnormal is imaginary — and that’s the fear that I have (which im trying to “zip”).
Father Ryan said that the Bible has 365 “Do not fear” passages… and then he went on with how to be courageous (words are mine, though, as I do not have photographic memory, hehe):
- Remove the guilt. Talk to counselors, pastors, elders to remove the baggage, or whatever it is that’s haunting you.
- Do not be afraid of those who could kill you physically. rather, be afraid of those who could kill your soul. Body’s just physical, what’s important is what’s within.
- Think of sin as a disease. The more we think of sin as a disease, the more we would stay away from it. Sinning hurts the body, the mind, and the spirit.
- We are more important than the sparrows. God loves us that He would never leave us. And though we are given the freedom to do the things we want, we should be responsible with our actions, and believe that God is with us, if we accept Him with all our hearts.
I’d like to end with the passage Father Ryan uttered during the homily, “If God is with me, who can be against me”… So just lean on God, and you will be protected, no matter what. 
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