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Fear is a positive acceptance that you

will experience what you dislike. Faith is a positive acceptance that you 

will experience what you do like. 

But they are identical.

The only difference is in the direction.

                                                          Ernest Holmes

Fear or faith? Both are feelings based on throughts about our experiences. Why is it that when we aren't sure what is going to happen, we often assume the worst? Years ago I read Feel the Fear ... and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers. She pointed out that when we don't know, it's just as likely that something good will happen as something bad. 

That's this week's practice: just for this week, let's avoid "awfulizing", fearing that, assuming that, the worst will happen. Rather than act out of fear and despair, let us seek those qualities and values that are still tucked away within everything. Let us act from those motives, of faith, of love, of courage, standing for what is good, right and true, knowing the power of these feelings lights our way through fear into other possibilities.