Today's Reading - For Today

"Better hazard once than always be in fear." Thomas Fuller My fears are just below the surface. I am not aware that much of my fear is of looking ridiculous or finding out I'm not too bright or that I'm narrow and small-minded underneath my civilized veneer. But it's better to jump in and examine my fears than to let them haunt me the rest of my life. I take a fourth-step inventory, skimming the surface at first, then digging deeper. The more honest I am, the more freely I breathe. THIS is what I feared? I want to shout to he world: Don't be afraid! For today: I am not afraid to take the next step. Everyone I know who took the fourth and fifth steps lived to tell about it.