I’d like to share with you a Bible passage that has been a tremendous help in reorienting my thinking about how to live fearlessly each day. “Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand” (Psalm 73:23). I have this mental image of God holding me by my right (i.e., dominant) hand with a strong grip, leaving my weaker left hand to hold all worldly things/circumstances with a loose grip. Even when the bad things really are unequivocally bad, God can bring good out of the bad things in our life, as we are told in Romans 8:28. Therefore, I want to hold on to both the worldly “good things” and the worldly “bad things” that I experience with a weaker left-hand grip. We will eventually lose our grip on good worldly things and bad worldly things, so I want to keep a light grip on them now, never holding good things too dear, or obsessing about how bad the bad things are (and may I remember bad things may turn out to be good things after all as God makes Romans 8:28 become true in my life).
