tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post6955101306468542241..comments2024-03-26T16:24:34.218+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: FearWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-27999580260415139842021-02-10T21:02:11.143+00:002021-02-10T21:02:11.143+00:00Beautiful. Thanks William Beautiful. Thanks William Brief Outlineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153534581115253885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-71496514125893890622021-02-09T09:43:02.023+00:002021-02-09T09:43:02.023+00:00You are right, Bruce. There is physical fear such ...You are right, Bruce. There is physical fear such as I described here and then there is what you might call spiritual fear which comes from not having sufficient faith. As you say, the former is probably helpful while the latter is sinful because it rejects God.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-54057312935101657132021-02-09T08:29:26.707+00:002021-02-09T08:29:26.707+00:00@William - Excellent analysis - articulates the si...@William - Excellent analysis - articulates the situation very well. <br /><br />I think it is usually necessary to distinguish between the acute fear you experienced in rock climbing - which is usually a heightened alternateness that is sueful for survival; from the chronic, angsty, long-term state of being afraid of the future - which is what Jesus seemed to be warning us against. <br /><br />Being afraid on a rock face may be useful, if it helps you escape the situation without harm - after which (as you describe it) the fear subsides spontaneously. <br /><br />Be not afraid could mean (as when angels say it) "there is no reason to be afraid, we mean you no harm" - or it can mean "You need to stop being afraid and trust in God's love for you". <br /><br />It would be useful is the sinful kind of fear had a different name (?angst) but maybe there just is a continuum of fears, some valid but others sinful; and a need for discernment among them? <br /><br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-59017287961442201282021-02-08T15:06:15.253+00:002021-02-08T15:06:15.253+00:00Hello Christopher
I lived near Mont St Michel for...Hello Christopher<br /><br />I lived near Mont St Michel for a few years in the 1990s. It is a magical place in an extraordinary setting. I wrote a bit about it last year.<br /><br />https://meetingthemasters.blogspot.com/2020/07/st-michael-and-dragon-that-is-satan.htmlWilliam Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-39075532754728008652021-02-08T13:49:55.477+00:002021-02-08T13:49:55.477+00:00About the Author
William Wildblood was born in Lon...<i>About the Author<br />William Wildblood was born in London. After a period working as an antiques dealer he left the UK to run a guesthouse in South India, where he stayed for several years. He later ran another guesthouse in France where he was also an occasional guide at the medieval abbey of le Mont Saint-Michel. He returned to England at the end of the 20th century, working for several BBC magazines including seven years as an antiques columnist. William now lives in Epsom, Surrey, UK.</i> William, my name is Christopher, I had recognized Mont Saint-Michel upon the book cover and was going to ask you to clarify with my observation. I've wanted to visit that magical place ever since getting wind of it in a virtual tour of it, of all things, in a video game about samurai battling demons. Behind that morning haze I thought it could have been that place and your brief bio mentions you are very familiar with the place. Super cool.<br /><br />Fear has many aspects which are reflections of the aspects of one's self. Coming to know one's self is coming into knowledge of God. I treat it with, perhaps speaking flowerly, of artistry; Oh, as I type this, I receive some syntax error of the computer of the use of flowerly, so maybe I should say leafly.<br /><br />I want to speak of a brevity of fear that can lay to rest what one is as one perceives one's self, and the brevity that will shock the individual and the intimate who are present in such times as wars and destructions. Entire lives, the experiences of oneself and their countrymen, are ordered by culture to attain to the truth of the self as being of God. I pray that such extreme severances form a man who knows that he is born again into eternity. Ave Maria.<br /><br />The span of moments between indecision and inaction are the moments between decision and action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com