Category: Ramblings

Seven Core Truths About Fear

Posted on by K.L. Gilchrist

Or How I Learned to Stop Fussing and Dance With Instagram

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Number one: the term “fear not” is mentioned in the Bible 365 times.

Number two: telling yourself to “fear not” is easier said than done, even as a person of faith.

Number three: everyone fears something, but we all fear something different.

Number four: Psychotic is the term used for a person who fears nothing, not even repercussions from their own actions.

Number five: I have an irrational fear of using Instagram which means I appear there, but I have a lot of anxiety about it.

Number six: the best way to manage fear is to name the fear, accept it’s existence, the push forward with the work anyway.

Number seven: when you can do number six consistently, you get your important work done because you let faith trump fear.

Remember all of this when you follow me on Instagram. 🙂

Stranger Things

Posted on by K.L. Gilchrist 

"All who had come around as spectators to watch the show, when they saw what actually happened, were overcome with grief and headed home. Those who knew Jesus well, along with the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a respectful distance and kept vigil." 
~Luke 23:48-49 (The Message Paraphrase)

Sometimes I struggle with thoughts about the relevance of the cross in these days and times. A cross on a hill. A man who died. People crying out about his innocence after his blood had been spilled. The reasons he died. His acceptance of the mission. His pain.

People stared at a cross and the man who dragged it up a hill and died. Strange.

It’s 2022 and I scan scriptures and speculate. Why does that cross matter? Or, how can it matter? The twenty-four-hour relentless new cycle mentions nothing about a cross.

Inflation. Stocks. Gas prices. Nick Cannon’s newest baby. Herschel Walker’s unmentioned children. Trump supporters. Congress. Balenciaga sneakers. Jobs. Taxes. Mass shootings. Poisoned water. Upcoming recession. Kourtney Kardashian. Vans. Kylie Jenner. BBLs. Virgin suicides. Gender discussions. Do you have enough money to retire? Could you survive on the paycheck of a Starbucks barista? Should you use weed killer on your lawn? Crumbling elementary schools. Wealthy universities. Scandal on scandal on scandal on scandal.

Scandal. The missing link.

The scandal of all scandals. A cross. An innocent man. His blood shed for us.

In 2000 more years, no one will mention Vans, BBLs, or Starbucks. In the years that have passed since Jesus’ resurrected, millions of people still talk about the cross. Still think about it. Still cling to it. Imagine that. Unusual, right? Curious? Extraordinary maybe?

Perhaps a genuine supernatural stranger thing?

Something to think about.