The thing about fear, (written from my perspective and experience) is that it lives in the dark, quiet places in our minds because we don’t want to talk about the things that scare us. The same as my children don’t like to recap a scary dream….people don’t want to give words to something they are afraid of. Instead, fear stays inside, it festers, it rears it’s ugly head and exaggerates our situations, crippling us, rendering us helpless in this state of anxiousness, panic, or flat out terror. We rationalize it, we feed it, and we keep it hidden. But God says, DO NOT BE AFRAID.