Love and fear.  Those are some of the biggest motivators, if not the most, in life.  In my field, it is a huge weapon in the arsenal (at times warranted, at others not so much).  I’m not immune to it – I sometimes half-jokingly tell former colleagues and students “We are the ones who knock in the night.”

But fear is so real.  I saw and still see people do all sorts of crazy, insane things because of it – Vince Lombardi once said that fatigue makes cowards of people.  So does fear.  My God, does it ever.  And those who wield it, know it.

It’s also no coincidence or error that the most repeated idea in the Bible is some variation of do not fear (I didn’t count. read it somewhere).  What we fear reveals who we are, who we are not, what we treasure, what we worship.

Thankfully love.  That supposedly casts fear out.  Haven’t figured this one out completely.  It feels right.

Love and fear.  Those are some of the biggest motivators, if not the most, in life.  In my field, it is a huge weapon in the arsenal (at times warranted, at others not so much).  I’m not immune to it – I sometimes half-jokingly tell former colleagues and students “We are the ones who knock in the night.”

But fear is so real.  I saw and still see people do all sorts of crazy, insane things because of it – Vince Lombardi once said that fatigue makes cowards of people.  So does fear.  My God, does it ever.  And those who wield it, know it.

It’s also no coincidence or error that the most repeated idea in the Bible is some variation of do not fear (I didn’t count. read it somewhere).  What we fear reveals who we are, who we are not, what we treasure, what we worship.

Thankfully love.  That supposedly casts fear out.  Haven’t figured this one out completely.  It feels right.