Category: Repentance

Earlier this week I found myself feeling more and more anxious. Those of us tuned into anxiety or have a history with being motivated or manipulated by fear can and should notice anxiety or fear creeping in. The trigger for me was the complex and deadly situation unfolding in Victoria and bleeding out into surrounding states, with the all to real possibility of that transmission creeping northward. One consolation was that at least I would know what to do if we had a second phase. Nevertheless, even with that small consolation I noticed, thank you Jesus, that fear was creeping in. Where there is fear love goes. So I found myself looking at every number plate and passing judgement if they were the wrong flavour. Instead of ‘we are all in this together’ it was becoming ‘us and them’. The ‘them’ were for me our modern day lepers! We all know the best thing to do with lepers – identify them as ‘unclean’ , quarantine, isolation, and rejection. Continue reading “Creeping Fear”