Trying to take over the world? There is a lot to dread, then...
Browsing through the Book of Pslams, I come across these two mind-boggling lines:
There they were, overwhelmed with dread,
where there was nothing to dread.
'Don't dread anything', would be an understandable exhortation of faith, but 'There is
nothing to dread'? It must be the most profound statement regarding this world I've ever heard.
(Then I realise that this is a breath-takingly pithy summary of what Tanakh, Jesus and my Church have always taught - and they teach one and the same thing: that there is nothing to dread out there, except what is in our heads. And what is being whispered into our heads).
