We, as the church, do a bad job talking about the relationship between faith and fear. Growing up, I thought they were opposites. I thought if I had more faith, I wouldn’t be afraid. I thought my anxiety was a sign of a lack of faith.

I thought if I were just BETTER at being a Christian, all that fear, all that anxiety would go away - because ‘there’s no fear in love’ and ‘your faith has made you well’ and all the other things well-meaning professional Christians quoted at me.

but what I’ve come to believe, is that faith and fear go hand in hand. It doesn’t take much faith to live in a world where I’m already full of peace. It doesn’t take much faith to do things I’d naturally do on my own, out of my own strength.

It seems, instead, that existing in this world, existing in spaces and places of anxiety, is already a sign of faith. And today, that’s enough.