Do not fear?

"I have secluded myself from society; and yet I never meant any such thing, nor dreamed what sort of life I was going to lead. I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon; and now I cannot find the key to let myself out? and if the door were open, I should be almost afraid to come out... For the last ten years I have not lived, but only dreamed about living." This man went on to write a story about a whole town of people who 'only dreamed about living.' Their dungeon was fear; that fear was projected onto the breast of one woman as a bright scarlet letter. At the end of the story the people of the town seek out Hester Prynne: "Why are we so wretched!" And she comforts them. Our fear is projected onto a scarlet mark on Jesus' side. "Do not fear? it is for freedom that I have set you free." Little ones, let us seek him and be comforted!

-Matt