{"id":298,"date":"2016-12-29T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2016-12-29T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T16:24:53","slug":"those-damn-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/those-damn-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Damn Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fear-no-dan-skognes-insurance-finance-investments-motivation-blogger-speaker-entrepreneur\"<\/a>The electoral college voted on December 20th<\/sup> and something in me died.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe not died<\/em>, but broke, shifted, was mangled.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump will be our next president.<\/p>\n

Some part of me, some subconscious part, some kid part believed we were better than that and clung to unreasonable hope. I really didn\u2019t think I was hopeful. I really thought I accepted the outcome of the election. I really had not.<\/p>\n

And I spiraled into grief and hopelessness and fear\u2026<\/p>\n

What is going to happen now? We will have a president with YUGE ethical challenges, hair trigger reactions to perceived slights, surrounded by right wing extremists, with a vision of our nation that is antithetical to everything I know and believe.<\/p>\n

What are we going to do? How are we going to face the threat to this nation and to our own humanity? I am frightened. Very frightened.<\/p>\n

And it came to pass that the days went by and the time came to read the Christmas story. And the angels appeared and said, \u201cFear not.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t be Afraid\u201d.\u00a0In the midst of poverty and oppression, when a people could imagine no way out, these freaking angels said, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid\u201d.<\/p>\n

Screw that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing. They were right. They are right. Whenever someone reminds or encourages to \u2018not be afraid\u2019 take it in. Listen. Breathe into it. It doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t things to be afraid of. There are. Many, many things. But we must take the challenge to heart.<\/p>\n

Because fear paralyzes. Fear defeats us before our enemies fire a shot across the bow.<\/p>\n

So, Fear Not. Use the scrambled energy within to stand and speak and work and move. There is more that needs to be challenged, checked, defeated, engaged than ever in our lifetime. We cannot let\u00a0fear defeat us before the fight is even begun.<\/p>\n

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