Dear Fear,
Why do you insist on your ways within me? You push your way in, crowding my mind, blocking out light and hope. Those old shadows of doubt and darkness I try so hard to push to the recesses of my brain, hidden from the joy I strive to maintain. Your ways are so sneaky and sudden that I can’t even see you creeping in.
You come in so many forms, life, money, children, health, and my future. So often the unknowns of these you use against me quickening my pulse, making me anxiously move about. Looking here and there, planning, preparing, consuming time and energy to overcome the fears of the unknowns. That’s it fear, that is where you get me, where you corner me – the unknowns. How do I conquer you and the way you move? I ask myself.
Then I look up, up towards the sky and I lift my face, and I smile. Joy and peace find their way back into my body, with a calming of my mind. My pulse slows and my anxieties fade away into a place of serenity. Dear God, I say, thank you that I do not need to fear the unknowns because you already know. So, you see fear, this letter to you is goodbye. I ask you again, why do you insist on your ways within me? But now it’s my turn to answer, you can’t, you have no power. The crowding becomes vacant. Light and hope move back in. The shadows of doubt and darkness disappear into confidence and brightness. Goodbye fear, God is here, you can’t sneak in anymore.

Signed,
Fearless