Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Trust the fear. If you’ve ever been scared shitless, you freeze. A rude awakening is called putting “the fear of God” in you. Your attention is gotten. Other ways this heightened sense happens is when you’re overwhelmed by some gesture of kindness, or a breakthrough of amazing proportions. Or you’ve entered an opulent space or have been surprised beyond words. It’s like entering a large cathedral—eyes to the ceiling, jaw slacked, speechless. You are at a loss for words, overcome with “fear and trembling.” Your attention has been gotten.
Both of these attention-getting phenomena heighten you. They make the mind stop, and you realize “faith over fear” is profoundly the same: mind stoppage. Before you are in the grip of fear, frozen and petrified, practice leaning into it. This is leaning not on your own understanding, but on something secretly helping you—a subtlety of a shadow.
Confident people have figured this out. They don’t run from fear but lean into situations which make others cower. This is what makes the apparent obstacle a friend, in the same way as a weight is an “opposing” friend to a bodybuilder. How many people run from the gym? Or it’s like wind resistance and gravity are opposing “friends” to an airplane. The Wright brothers didn’t run from gravity nor wind; they used them.
Obstacles don’t stop you; they open creativity. Work around them, and continue to move despite them. Use them. Then you trust the fear. This is counterintuitive to the coward who gives up, tries to “kill it,” or tries to “get there.” A confident person trusts that as they get closer to the apparent enemy, they will see its hidden friendliness. Fear is trustworthy. It’s not meant to defeat, but secretly help.
Trust this fear. It’s faith in action—“the fear of the Lord.”