Prayer - Fear
When the Music Plays
Maybe you’re like me… do you remember the absolute, overwhelming pressure to fit in in middle school? For me, it was all about having the right clothes and wearing them the right way. If you walked into the cafeteria wearing the wrong thing, you just knew it. The pressure to conform , to blend in , to do whatever it took to avoid standing out—it was exhausting! And that pressure doesn’t magically disappear when we become adults. The "cafeteria" just gets bigger. Instead of clothes, we feel the immense pressure to bow to the idols of our culture, our jobs,…
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Have you ever been to a carnival and stood in front of one of those funhouse mirrors? One makes you look a mile tall, and the next one makes you look a hundred pounds heavier. The crazy thing is, you didn't change at all. The only thing that changed was the lens you were looking through. It’s funny at a fair, but it’s exhausting in real life. I think that’s exactly what fear does. Fear is a funhouse mirror for our problems. It takes a legitimate challenge—a health scare, a financial squeeze, a problem with our kids—and it distorts it,…
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