Fear

Once on a short weekend retreat we were given a candle and asked to identify something we would like to extinguish. I think maybe we actually wrote it on a piece of paper and burned it also.

I wrote down fear.

When I blew out the candle I was blowing out my fear.

A few weeks later, I went on my own personal sort of retreat. I took that candle and would light it and blow it out over and over again. But I would laugh in this great big cackle of a laugh every time. It was great fun.