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Grace Magazine | By Women for Women | Fall 2017 10 IT'S TEA TIME Lisa Hamlett, Mary Davisson and Ganelle Moultry-Leach (from Left to Right). Sometimes, We Must Resist Fear & Run Towards the Roar! Experience has taught me that our fears have many facades. For the most part they appear without consideration for our mental and emotional state, nationality, geographical location, gender, economical status, age or for our family's welfare. I have discovered that how we handle our present consternations can be key to our destiny. Did you know some fears are healthy because they create boundaries when and where ferfulness is. Therefore, they keep us out of harm's way? Then, on the other hand, there are other terrors that are unwholesome. Oftentimes, those need to be confronted head-on. Do you know when to run towards your dreams, and when, and if you should take flight? How do you know which ones you should run in the direction of (to address, oppose, challenge, defeat) and which ones you should stay away from? Learning how to decipher one fear from another can be a daunting task. I've discovered it takes patience and wisdom to navigate their sundry of fear's disguises. Personally, I've had many perturbing moments when the rumbles of life were louder than the stillness of my faith. When God called me into ministry, to leave one job and begin another, I had to grapple with fear. In the past, fear