On November 13 this year Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. The last 21 years she has spent 15 of them in her house in Burma. Time magazine’s November issue covers her story and quotes what she said in her famous “Freedom of Fear” speech two decades ago:
“It is not power that corrupts but fear… Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing not to let fear dictate one’s actions.”

I face this type of challenge in my life in different ways, and I think we all do. There are different kinds of fear and there are different ways of handling the fear. I might be locked up in a prison of fear, I might ignore the fear, I might face the fear and I might fight to overcome the fear.

Through all kinds of training and psychological techniques we might be able to overcome different specific fear, for instance fear of spiders, flying, hights, commitment, sickness and what have you. But as Aung San Suu Kyi is stating, the freedom is in not letting the fear dictate your actions.

The Bible is talking a lot about freedom and fearlessness. Paul writes in one of his letters:
‘It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.’

Safe with her dad