The Cure For Fear

                                      Dedicated to the warriors who battle anxiety everyday.

                                                       Scarecrow, this one's for you.



    Anxiety. It's a path. A path that we often choose to on without even knowing it. Anxiety is a product of fear. Fear begins in the heart and climbs up into the brain. In the mind, anxiety takes over. It grasps the thoughts. It controls them. Anxiety moves from the brain and into the body and takes over physically. Without even knowing it, the fear that began in the heart has now taken over our mind and body. So, without even knowing it, we choose anxiety's path. Why? Number one, because we've been taken over. Number two, because we've been blinded by darkness.

    This darkness is called depression. Depression is anxiety's closest confident; its partner in crime. They work together more often then not.

    Depression lies. Its what its best at. It tells you that you have no choice. There's no other path than anxieties. That there is no Light, only depression. And after being taken over by fear and walking alone in the dark, we'll listen to just about anything.

    What is there to do? How can we fight it? Nothing. There is nothing. We are incapable. After all, we're being controlled by fear, alone in the dark.  The only thing that can fight darkness is Light, and at the moment, we can find none.

    But maybe if we call out, maybe if we cry for the Light it'll come. But we can't ask for Light and not expect it to come. We have to believe it will come. We have to trust Him.

    When we do believe, when we do trust, the Light will come shinning bright through the darkness. He'll call out to us. He'll show us the way out of this. He'll explain that there is a purpose for the darkness. He'll explain there is a purpose to our walk in fear. And if we just trust Him, He'll show us just what that purpose is.

    But then comes the difficult part. He might ask us to stay on the path, just a little longer, so that the plan might come to the end; that the purpose might be made completely.

    But you don't have to walk the path alone. Because He'll shine His Light so you can see in the dark.

    Maybe we don't want to trust the Light. After all, we've grown accustomed to the darkness. Our fear is in a very strange way, uncomfortably comfortable.

   But we can remember what the Light looked like before we went into the darkness. We did trust Him once, when there was joy,

   And yet, here was the Light in the middle of the darkness. He didn't leave during the joy, and He has shown He would not leave during the dark times.

  And it all makes  sense. As Light is the only way to fight darkness, trust is the only cure for fear.