[Sundaycommunity] Happy 2021

[Roberto]

The iron curtain countries and still now the Russian have more reason to have that fear you mention. And then, history has teach us, (that is if you believe in some of it,) that any and all attempts to dominate people breaks down at some point. All empires have failed, broken off, some disappeared all together and the misery they created transformed.
Fear is not to be masters, it exist only to be overcome. No one can lived with fear trying to master it. You can only liberated yourself of it with courage and faith, more faith and courage.
Faith is not a place. It is a verb. Either you practice it or not. Either a cow is pregnant or not, but you can not play both roles. 
I have been in to many hells in life and I am here telling you about faith because I want to live it, not reach it. In the darkest moments that exercise pay off to the point that I am telling you about it.
Imagination and fear grow to terror. Expectations and fear also grow to be terror. And terror is not a good place to be or exercise. 
I do appreciate your sharing. It help me understand why I do keep in believing in love and the messenger of this love.
Thanks,
Roberto

> On Jan 3, 2021, at 06:55, Brian Shaughnessy <bshaughn43 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> MASTERING OUR FEARS
> 
> The great value of crystalizing harmful feelings that have you in their grip and you are not even aware of 
> them is something that I learned from Rita and I being a "team couple" at Queen of Apostles Renewal Centre
> in Mississauga in the '70s and '80s.  Younger, we worked mostly with engaged couples getting their marriage
> prep over a one weekend rather than in a series of weeknights.  
> 
> And part of that was teaching the do's and don'ts of good communication, then breaking up into smaller 
> "workshop" groups where the couples could role-play communication problems they had had, often using 
> arguments they had had in the car on their way to the Centre on the Friday evening.
> 
> The "fear" that I am referring to now -- that "V for Vendetta" shows well -- is a global authoritarian-govt 
> takeover.  And how did they do it?  By THEIR creating a PANDEMIC, then blaming others for it, and with great 
> FEAR-MONGERING, getting everyone in their panic to call to save them the very ones who were out to
> enslave them for their own selfish power-and-wealth ends.  :(
> 
>          Brian
> 
> aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM
> 
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>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 11:55 AM Catherine Walther <catherine.walther at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When you look at the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit fear is nowhere to be seen. Even the term ‘fear of the Lord’ means Awe and Reverence for God, not scaredness.
>> So yes, Happy, Joyful, Thankful, Courageous, and Loving New Year to all, Catherine 
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 5:34 AM Brian Shaughnessy <bshaughn43 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Happy" New Year?
>>> 
>>> To be honest, I am more scared about our earthly future going into 2021 that I have ever been starting a new year.  
>>> 
>>> And it is not even close.  
>>> 
>>> Paul for sure, but do the rest of you know the dystopian movie "V for Vendetta"?  That is the enslaved society that 
>>> I fear we are very close to entering.
>>> 
>>> The good news is that our Good God Who loves us as no other is forever fully in charge and ready to help us,
>>> that however bad it gets, it is but a test of our worthiness for what is to follow, and that He will stamp His 
>>> "Enough!" on this world when the hour, that only He knows, is right.  :)
>>> 
>>>         Brian
>>> 
>>> aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM
>>> 
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>>>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 3:43 PM Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>>>> Happy and Healthy New Year Everyone! 
>>>> ❤️ Catherine. 
>>> 
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>>>> May you walk in joy as love calls us on.
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>> May you walk in joy as love calls us on.
>> 
> 
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