Fear is a four letter word

I am watching the series on Roosevelts. It's quite extraordinary.  Once again I got to hear and see one of FDR's most captivating words. " The only thing we have to fear...is fear itsel".    In some ways that statement makes absolutely no sense.  And yet...as you can break it down into an abstract dimension of the statement you can recognize that fear...is a four letter word. Fear stops us from the real work.  Fear becomes the monster inside of us that is trapped.  Fear can manifest into uglier things.  Fear stops us from understanding and appreciating the more beautiful things in life.  Fear is the enemy by which negative energy feeds on.  But fear is conniving.  We succumb to the idea we are less strong or less anything from this fear.  When we can name our fears...when we can recognize the core of our fear and learn to utilize it for good...to learn how to cope and overcome the fear...We have beaten fear,  And even when we don't..for that moment because of our human tendency to be well...human...we still have beaten fear.  Because we have support.  We have people that believe we can over come this fear.  They have "faith" that we are more than this fear.  We are a person.  We are not a product of the fear.  We are merely different sides of what fear can possess.  We all have different thresholds to what can become of us when adversity is upon us.  It doesn't make us less or more than anyone.  It just makes us different.  What words of wisdom.  And that's another soulful and beautiful thing.  Words makes fear...fear.  Words can influence ideas. Ideas can become beliefs.  Words can change the world.  That demon that resides in fear...is almost always there.  I can't imagine anyone not having some type of inner struggle of any kind.  Not even the rich are free from some type of shackle of fear.  But what you do with that fear determines what kind of person you can be.  So it's okay to fear.  But don't let fear become a four letter word you avoid.  Let fear become the four letter word you confront.  Fear...You fear.. You don't have me.