Trust Can Only Be Earned
OPINION: Yep, the stories just keep on coming. I haven’t noted any sign of them drying up yet, no let-up seems to be in sight! And with the rapid advances in AI, maybe the worst is still to come.
To me they are such happy little guys. I have yet to see any suffering from anxiety about tomorrow, or so uptight with fear and worry they’re not able to sleep. Every time I see them, they are hard-out enjoying life!
As a child, electrical storms totally freaked me. I pretty much trembled with fear. I pulled the blinds right down on the window in my room and then put books up against the bottom to shut out all the lightning.
In my teenage years, out on my horse one day, we got caught out in a massive storm. I promised the Lord all kinds of stuff that day! Doesn’t bother me at all now though, and it hasn’t done for many years.
I was on a flight beside an electrical storm up in Papua New Guinea years ago. The light show through the clouds was spectacular! Truly I enjoyed that flight!
Talking about fear, like many of you will too, I vividly remember the covid lockdowns and all the fear that got peddled along with it. I commented several times to my wife: “Look at that elderly couple over there, they look so broken!”
Yep, we bumped into fear-filled people many times over. And all the scare stuff to get you vaxed too. Don’t want to be the reason Grandma or Poppa died now do we?
A young truckie came in one day to pick up some livestock we were sending. He was fuming mad and made no attempt at all to hide it. He wanted to talk. He felt like he, his wife and young family had a gun to their head. Both of them would lose their jobs instantly if they refused the vax, he told me.
Now, I still don’t get the logic of wearing a mask when you are on your own, in your own car, out on a highway, miles from needing a stop! Each to their own, I guess. But I’d suggest fear has to be in the mix there somewhere.
And as we all know so well, anger, fear and worry are just not a good mix when it comes to our overall health and wellbeing.
Something that amused us both happened recently. We noted a news headline that read: “NZ Bunker Inquiries Double Amid The Iran Conflict”.
Just a few days later we took a train trip on the Northern Express. Great Journeys New Zealand is what it’s called. We shared a table with a nice couple visiting here from Europe. They informed us that NZ was definitely the safest place to be if the world was going to end. Yes, that’s exactly what they said. That being the case, they and their family have made plans to all meet up here, if it looks like being curtains.
We surely have a great little country and a great place to live. However, I think they see us as offering the most remote from trouble option possible. Antarctica just wouldn’t be as comfy!
When it comes to fear and worry, for sure, what you know is important. Like for starters, is it even true? And what are my options?
But for me, I have learned even more important again is who you know. Yep, he’s the one who has calmed all my fears. Take care and God bless.
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