“It is the Unknown we fear when we look upon death & darkness, nothing more.” Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling)
The “Unknown.” What a terrifying concept! And we face it every day. We never know if today will be our last or
the start to many others. We don’t know exactly what the future holds, but we live each day assuming that we have another. I personally really like that assumption. I enjoy assuming that I will be around tomorrow. I have hopes and dreams I want to accomplish. I have desires that may seem will never come true. And yet, I wait patiently and work. I work on trying to figure out what to do with my life. I have had so many doors closed in my face the past year. The doors I thought I wanted opened. But as a song that rings so true (like almost every Carrie Underwood song), these lyrics always tug at my heart-strings:
As bad as it was, as bad as it hurt
I thank God I didn’t get what I thought that I deserved
Sometimes life leads you down a different road
Someday you’ll see the reason why
There’s good in goodbye, yeah
(Carrie Underwood, “Good in Goodbye”)
Rejection is a hard thing to deal with. But what is worse is letting the Fear of Rejection stop you from becoming something you desire to be. We fear the unknown, but I think perhaps we fear potential consequences. I know that 
stops me from completing a lot of my goals. I’m a chicken. I’m too scared to do the hard things. I’m admitting it, and you better admit it too. What’s the one thing you are terrified to do? Is it because you are worried about how you may look? Are the consequences only in your head? Are you afraid of the reality of your situation? I know I am guilty of all of the above. Reality can sometimes really be terrifying. The fear of uncertainty is a thief of dreams. It slowly takes our hope, faith, and the desire to become better. I don’t want the fear of failure, the fear of the unknown to steal my hopes, dreams, and desires.
Within three days of my parents car “exploding,” that same sister and her husband were on their way back to Minnesota to a family funeral, their radiator went out about an hour and half into their road trip. They had to wait for a tow truck, and then they had to wait for another truck to come and pick them up! Their family all couldn’t fit in the first tow truck. Needless to say, they made it to their destination safely after renting a car.
The Liz Kent Experience 