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Every generation in some way goes through turbulence, disasters, good and bad phases of life. After all, it is nicely written in the Bible that there is nothing new under the sun. And no.
It seems to us that this is something new, and it is not. What’s new? Fear? So ask those who were in the war what fear is. Uncertainty? Uncertainty is well known to all of us from those areas, it has almost followed us since birth. Personal uncertainty? And we felt it, if not all, then the vast majority. Economic uncertainty? Ah, because of that uncertainty, we more or less came here, to Australia, a distant, promised land.
What is the difference then, why is this crisis seemingly worse than all we have been through? It is not worse in any way, only this time we as a nation are not alone, now we are all in the same situation, and once it was just us while others did not even know where Serbia was, mixing that term with Siberia and Syria.
Maybe some even rejoiced at the hardships we went through in the 1990s. This time, everyone is talking about this, the newspapers are writing as if they are competing over who will put the scarier headline, the news is “shaking” from the small screens.
Sometimes we wonder what they would say on that news if there were no crises, wars, floods, fires… At times, it seems that many of these misfortunes exist in order to talk about them, write about them, to be afraid of the same people. As if fear is something that everyone feeds on. And maybe it is. It is this knowledge that is our strongest weapon in the fight against fear, against evil.
Fear not and it will pass.
There is an ancient story when the plague went to Damascus and “came across” a caravan in the desert.
“Where are you in a hurry?” The caravan leader asked.
“In Damascus. I want to take 1,000 lives. ”
On the way back from Damascus, the plague passed by the same caravan again. The leader told her, “You took 50,000 lives, not 1,000.”
“No,” replied the Plague. “I took 1,000 lives, the rest were taken away by fear.”
When we know that fear is the main, and probably the only enemy, we can stop being afraid. There is only one more question that will be asked, and I hope it will be answered in the next story.
King Solomon wanted to humiliate one of his ministers in some way and gave him an impossible task. The powerful King Solomon ordered Minister Benaji to find a ring that will be able to make a sad man happy, to make a happy man sad, to release the fear of someone who is afraid and to scare someone who is not afraid of anything.
He searched for Benaja on all sides for a long time, the magic ring was over, with no hope of finding it. One day he came to the poorest part of Jerusalem. The merchant, like everyone else so far, was shocked by the request for such a ring, but the minister’s unusual request was heard by the merchant’s grandfather who appeared behind the curtain.
Without a word, the old man took the gold ring from the window and engraved four short words in it. When Benaiah finally returned to King Solomon, he gathered all his ministers and asked Benaiah with a smile if he had found the magic ring.
Everyone knew that it was an impossible mission and they expected the minister to experience humiliation. Benaiah, calmly and without a word, handed the ring to King Solomon, who took the ring, looked at what was written, and at that moment his smile disappeared. The ring said “And this will pass.”
Therefore: Do not be afraid, and this will pass!
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