"All fear is disloyalty to God"

This is today's meditation from "24 Hours a Day," published by Hazelden but derived from material developed earlier by the Oxford Group. I try to start every morning with a quiet time during which I read from this book and a couple of other sources.

Daily Recovery Readings: "Meditation For The Day

Avoid fear as you would a plague. Fear, even the smallest
fear, is a hacking at the cords of faith that bind you to
God. However small the fraying, in time those cords will
wear thin, and then one disappointment or shock will make
them snap. But for the little fears, the cords of faith
would have held firm. Avoid depression, which is allied to
fear. Remember that all fear is disloyalty to God. It is a
denial of His care and protection."

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This may not come as news to many other folks in Delaware, the credit-card capital, but I found it enlightening.

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