Fear

It is easy sometimes to forget how crippling fear really can become. As I sat in a dentist chair yesterday awaiting a tooth extraction for a broken tooth, I realized my hands were trembling with fear. No matter how hard I tried to relax, get control of my fear; I couldn’t control my hands. I have had this fear of dentists since I was a kid and unfortunately it is one that just wont go away. I even remember vividly the particular visit that led to this fear, a sensation of suffocating as the dentist used a drill, the sound and smell of burning tooth.Now as I sit and think about this fear of mine and how it affected me during the dentist visit, I start to wonder about other peoples fear and how it affects them. How others around us suffer from their fears or how their lives can be ruled by those fears.
Sometimes it is good to be reminded of our own weaknesses so that we do not forget that we all have them. To help us grow in compassion and mercy. To bring us to humbleness.