Article July 16, 2012 Issue

A little more faith defeats fear

Annette Bridges

First appeared as a web original on May 30, 2012

Have you ever been afraid of everything? Has your life been so driven by fear that you couldn’t function or think about anything else but the many fears overwhelming your mind? 

That would describe me not long ago.

I had become so afraid of disease and death that I was no longer living a normal life. After a family member and a dear friend passed on during their battle with cancer, which medical science had not been able to cure, morbid imagination consumed many of my waking hours as well as my dreams at night. My fears became insurmountable as more family members struggled with physical ailments, including myself. 