fear is a liar.

Once you clear the emotional clutter of unforgiveness, fear is usually the next barrier that tries to block your purpose.

And the truth is:
fear isn’t just personal — it’s collective.

It waits on our newsfeeds.
And pops up in our group chats.
It settles into our bodies in ways we don’t notice right away.

Fear is the mind’s alarm system.
Faith is the part of you that remembers — you’re already held.

Fear is loud right now — politically, socially, spiritually.
But the light is louder.

Even though collective fear is real, collective light is stronger.

And when fear strikes, this quote by Marianne Williamson calls its bluff:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.”

Advent teaches us that even the smallest flame can pierce the longest night.
And even when the world shakes, Light still chooses us.
Because courage isn’t the absence of fear — it’s the decision to move forward anyway, slowly, steadily, faithfully.

You’re responsible for your light, not the whole sky.

So for now tend to the flame inside you —
the one God placed there,
the one fear cannot extinguish,
no matter how hard it tries.