Archive for June, 2010
Simply Fearless
an excerpt from Simply Single by Suesan Marie (our founder’s pen name):
To be simply fearless means to have built your spiritual foundation on something solid. This foundation does not have any flaws in it that might eventually lead to cracks.
Fear is one of those flaws. Like pebbles that mix in with the concrete and then are encased in its hard embrace, fear permeates your spiritual foundation. Eventually, tiny cracks appear at the pebble’s location; without great care and attention to remove these tiny cracks, they will become large spider veins throughout your foundation, eventually causing it to crumble.
So if you have a fear like a pebble stuck in your base, simply remove it, carefully.
Unfortunately, removing fear from your life is not always that simple. Remember the goal is to be simply fearless. Getting to that state of mind is not all that simple.
You can go around it, or at least try to do so; you can accept it as part of your life and live with it; or, you can go through it.
If you try to avoid or go around the fear it will only get stronger. If you try to live with it, it will control you, reshaping you into an imitation of its own ugly form.
But if you go through the fear, light is shining on the other side to reward you!
I love the imagery those words bring to mind—bright, comforting, safe light just outside the end of that dark tunnel of fear, waiting for me to finally emerge, holding fine gifts I have only dreamed of having: peace of mind, complete relaxation, financial security, love.
As a writer, I have made a commitment in my life to be simply fearless. Fear paralyzes your writer’s muse, your creativity, your passion. I was reading a discussion on one of the online writers’ groups about the fear of submitting a proposal to an editor and being rejected only to discover later that the editor actually used your idea and assigned it to another writer. Writers in that discussion agreed that it does happen and you can’t do anything about it except convince the editor that you are the only writer who can make that book or article or essay come to life so that you, and only you, get the assignment.
… continued in Simply Single.