In an atmosphere in which fear seems to be the very air we breathe because of global instability, division, and aggression, is there nothing we can do? I have discovered that turning unreservedly to God in prayer enables me to face down fear. When we learn that God, divine Love, is everywhere present and all-powerful, we see for ourselves that fear can have no presence, activity, or power. And every time we are willing to live fearlessly, we contribute to a lessening of fear everywhere. 

Many years ago in Spain, it looked as though I had lost everything. While I was away visiting family, I received a phone call from the police saying that my home had been vandalized and robbed. Remarkably, they had a photo of the perpetrator and his license plate as he was driving off my property, and they said I should come home immediately. 

Fear is not inevitable, and evil is not the natural state of man.