We’re used to living in fear. No, not just we, but all. We expect it, we prepare for it and often, we create it as a measure of our behaviorisms, under the guise of survival. No matter what side one is born on, fear is experienced. Either through what is taught, perpetuated or accepted, so much so, insecurity hardens our hearts far before the epiphany renders there are no sides. For we all are in this together. But oh, that conditioned lust for fear, hexed within separation, spawning within small voice, wielding deception as motivation. Under the cloak of denial, we are of apathy, and apparently, matters not, for fear has become our bread, and the deceiver; our choice of drink. 

No? Then why are we so easily distracted? Is it because we fear the unknown, or do we crave its deception? 

Why instead of loving our neighbors, do we see them through the lens of media propaganda? Is it because it’s safer to judge from a distance rather than extend an olive branch? Know that that which wants to be revered is the deceiver, constantly at work beckoning our insecurities, such as reinforce the fear we’ve come to accept. 

We lend to fear so much; we try to characterize everything, such to fit within the ideological comforts of what we believe is normal or, even more exciting – what we fear is potentially threatening. In this, within the smallness of our understandings, we attempt to discern that which is friend, foe or even futile. Why? When even we don’t know who we – truly are. Because if we did, we wouldn’t be so easily motivated by the casting of fear upon us. We’ve become so distracted by design; we’re in awe of fearing everyone else. So much so, we’ve failed to identify the source. Who did this to us, who told you to fear all, over the one (and the way), who is truly worthy of our reverence. –  Pastor Reginald