Imagine a child instructed to sit down at a table and draw the most frightening thing it can conceive of.
Then imagine that the child has forgotten that the instruction came from without and believes it is its nature or duty to draw images of unimaginable horror.
Then imagine that the child, in the moment of drawing, forgets that it is the one doing the drawing.
Then imagine that the child, as the images unfold like a tableau vivant, forgets that this is a drawing and believes it to be the future unfolding before its eyes.
Firstly, it would scream in terror. Secondly, it would be transfixed.
For this to occur, there are three conditions which must be met, which must equally be 'un-met' for the situation to be resolved:
(1) The child has forgotten that what is sees is a fabrication, not the actual future.
(2) The child has forgotten that it is the one drawing this fabrication.
(3) The child has forgotten that the instruction to draw came from without, not within its true self.
The problem, with fear, is apparently, then, one of forgetfulness.
If the instructing voice were not listened to, the page would remain white, in perpetuity.
The instructing voice may not go away permanently.
But there is a stronger voice, one of love and gentle direction.
Kids have to follow some voice or another.
What's your choice to be?
"When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?" (53:2, 'Alcoholics Anonymous')
"a God personal to me, who was love, superhuman strength and direction" (10:4)
"We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear." (68:3)