"For now you walk the line."

Fear, second only to love, is perhaps the most powerful force of action. It drives so often what we do and what we say. Fear for the future, fear for our loved ones, fear of the unknown. It feeds on us, a parasite that with each day weakens our ability to love and laugh. One of my favorite quotes reads, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious to not live at all. For now you walk the line between who you think you are, and who you can be." These lines have been running through my mind these past few weeks. It seems I cannot escape them. There is much to fear in the world. But those things that cause me to quake, the nightmares of the blackest kind that haunt my heart on even the brightest of days, those hideous and ugly truths of the world, they are not going anywhere. My fear I will not escape, but conquer it, now that I can do.

Our Savior spoke to us and said, "In this world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." Certainly there are numerous things which are more important than fear. My mind does not need to venture into uncharted waters in order to think of many at this very moment. But it is not at a peaceful and safe moment such as this that I must battle against my fears. It is in the heart of the storm that they escape my mind and I am felt at the mercy of the winds. Every day and at every moment we must ask ourselves what is that thing that is more important than our fear. We must always keep that answer locked tight within our hearts. So that rather then let ourselves fear for the future, we find ourselves living for it. So that we do not fear for our loved one, but we live for our loved ones, and so we do not let our fear of the unknown stand in our way, but that we may go forth courageously into the unknown.

"For now you walk the line between who think you are and who you can be." Oftentimes the hardest place to look is in the mirror. To often I hide behind you I think I am and wave away those thoughts of who I can be. To truly know oneself is powerful. Yet now this, there is a divine potential in each and every one of us. It's time to stop running in fear and make a stand for myself, for who I can be. This stand I must make alone, for if I am unable to stand alone, why should anyone bother to stand with me. It is a decision one must make for themselves. So its left to me, for me to see who exactly I can be.