Filed under: c.a. leibow, chris leibow, Letting Go, spirituality | Tags: Overcoming Fear
Here is something I have been meditating on lately, when I realized I let my fears get the best of me again. It’s difficult to realize our own inability to see ourselves or others in that place of fear.
Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out…..
How often in our lives are we like Peter? Sometimes I can only see the wind and the waves and look away from that which is beautiful and true, from being truly “in the moment,”
Whether the wind and waves are our histories, expectations, ghosts, desires, insecurities, unknowns, pressures, doubts, frustrations, fears, and we take our gaze of that which is present and beautiful, we begin to sink and cry out or turn in on ourselves.
It curious how at times we are so busy asking or telling some one else how to calm their winds when we need to learn how to calm the waves and slack the wind within ourselves through mediation, faith, trust, not necessarily something outside of us but something inside of us before we can expect those around us to do the same.
Just a thought.
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