Sunshine Cathedral Blog

by the Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins

“Fear develops a malignant magnetism by which it draws to itself the objects feared, just as a magnet draws a piece of iron, and thus increases our miseries.” Paramahansa Yogananda

It is important to remember that fear is focus, and what we focus on we tend to drift toward, attract, or create in our lives. When we focus on defeat, or on what could go wrong, or on why things are unlikely to succeed, or on why something might be very difficult, we are actually setting our course for the very things we don’t want. But even though we don’t want them, if we are focused on them, we are bound to move in their direction or attract those very things into our experience. Hope is always the better way. When we focus on what we do want, what we wish to achieve, what we believe is possible, on all the ways things could work out well and for our benefit, then we begin to move toward, attract, or create those better conditions in our lives. Fear is focus, and so is hope. Where we place our focus is entirely up to us.