Fear<\/b><\/p>\n
When you fear that the worst will happen, your own thoughts may help to bring it about. \u201cFear,\u201d a writer once said, \u201cIs the wrong use of imagination. It is anticipating the worst, not the best that can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
A salesman, driving on a lonely country road one dark and rainy night had a flat. He opened the trunk\u2014no lug wrench. The light from a farmhouse could be seen dimly up the road. He set out on foot through the driving rain. Surely the farmer would have a lug wrench he could borrow, he thought. Of course, it was late at night\u2014the farmer would be asleep in his warm, dry bed. Maybe he wouldn\u2019t answer the door. and even if he did, he\u2019d be angry at being awakened in the middle of the night. The salesman, picking his way blindly in the dark, stumbled on. By now his shoes and clothing were soaked. Even if the farmer did answer his knock, he would probably shout something like, \u201cWhat\u2019s the big idea waking me up at this hour!\u201d This thought make the salesman angry. What right did that farmer have to refuse him the loan of a lug wrench? After all, here he was stranded in the middle of nowhere, soaked to the skin. The farmer was a selfish clod\u2014no doubt about that!<\/p>\n
The salesman finally reached the house, and banged loudly on the door. A light went on inside, and a window opened above. \u201cWho is it?\u201d a voice called out. \u201cYou know darn well who it is,\u201d yelled the salesman, his face white with anger. \u201cIt\u2019s me! You can keep your blasted lug wrench. I wouldn\u2019t borrow it now if you had the last one on earth!\u201d<\/p>\n
Bits and Pieces, May, 1991, p. 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fear When you fear that the worst will happen, your own thoughts may help to bring it about. \u201cFear,\u201d a writer once said, \u201cIs the wrong use of imagination. It is anticipating the worst, not the best that can happen.\u201d A salesman, driving on a lonely country road one dark and rainy night had a … Continue reading “Imagination”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}