Afraid

Text: Psalm 27

Since Easter we have been turning to Psalms as “Songs for Every Season” – particularly because we are in “a season.” It’s not just the scary coronavirus, but everything that comes with it: stay-home orders, social distancing, face masks, change in income, change in work and school, uncertainty about how long this will go on, and more. So we’ve looked at some of the very human and relevant feelings expressed in the Psalms: grief, impatience, and today’s topic, fear.

Fears Abound

I think we are more afraid than we may realize. It may be the fear of catching the thing, though other fears may be eclipsing that. There is fear of income loss and recession. There is fear that we will not enjoy the same freedoms we used to. There is fear that we might not get back to “normal.” And on top of all those fears, I am freshly reminded this past week as I read about the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, that people of color in this country deal with an extra layer of fear t