FEAR

Fear is the great denier of good. Quoting great people, you'll find it said over and over again in myriad ways.

When I found out my sister was sick with cancer, my first thought was "We WILL WIN!" Then I felt it...the fear crept over me like a blanket of ice, threatening to freeze me in place. Instinct hit me like a mallet...SHAKE!!! HARD!!! HARDER!!!

The resulting peace and determination to take one step at a time into battle, to gather what weapons I could find and fight, made me realize I truly fear nothing. Not cancer, not pain, and certainly not death. But...

What about the pain and fear of my loved ones?! What can I do to stop it? I can not only chant, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, but I will teach others. From my own experience, I know without doubt that the results of chanting are incalculable. The truth of it is that I have the most powerful weapon of all.

I am, however, human. I am sometimes weak. Lifetimes ago, when I was young and we saw hurt and rage and faced it hour by hour as siblings, I had no answers. I begged an invisible force for help and there was none. Those memories, embedded in my deepest psychic recesses, haunt my present and are the one obstacle to success. They darken my hope and take my breath away before I realize their power to suffocate me has choked me to silence. I remember.

This is my challenge...to overcome and open every pore, open every door, open every single opportunity to chant and MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Kill cancer. Kill pain. Kill fear.