Fear: it makes no sense in love

Among all my fears and doubts and feeling like I was barely able to keep it all afloat, my workplace shut down along with the rest of the world due to something as small as a virus that became something so much larger. 

Hmm. That sounds familiar. 

If you've read parts 1 and 2 of my fear trilogy, you know that with this post I'm going to share how a time that caused fear and stress for so many people actually relieved mine. 

It may sound crazy and even a little rude, but when the rest of the world was panicking, I was finally at peace for the first time in a while. 

I wasn't juggling everything at work and the fears of the past how many months seemed irrelevant and so much smaller as I took walks on cool early spring mornings and began to paint and rediscovered the joy of writing. God magnified the little things and washed away the big things, giving me time to take a deep breath.   

He used that time to remind me who I am, and that He created me to be that person. I felt His creativity flowing through me as I taught myself to watercolor paint and filled a notebook faster than I have in years. He brought me new depth from His written Word. Though my walks outside in His creation reminded me of how big my God is and how small I am, God reminded me that He wants to work through my smallness to reveal His greatness. 

It all comes back to love, for God is love. And in that love of a Father, He reminds His children who we are and what He's created us for. And in the strength of His love, fear has no more space to be. 

1 John 4:18 sums it all up perfectly: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love."

My friend, seek your Father and His love and watch it cast out your fear!