Isaiah chapter 31: Be not afraid

31:4   ‘This is what the Lord says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamour’

Holding our own in battles on life’s journey. Sometimes stiff, sudden and what seems like overwhelming opposition may come our way. Sometimes, the opposition is from within ourselves and sometimes from without. We can be prisoners to the opinions, expectations and caricatures placed on ourselves.

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Be not frightened or disturbed is what God says to us. As a 16^th century mystic, St Teresa of Avila wrote :

Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.

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