Pressure

 

“I recall someone saying to me, ‘Anger is fear under pressure.’
I’ve found it to be true. Behind anger fear is always lurking.” —  Anon

A friend sent me the above. I much prefer the famous quote of Hemingway’s used by JFK in his Profiles In Courage — “Courage is grace under pressure.”

On vacation this week I listened to an Iraqi war veteran speak about war and its many faces. During the Q&A he was asked terrorism and decisions to go to war. He got emotional when he answered, “Never, ever should fear be the driving force behind war.” He answered.

God tells us to “fear not, for I am with you.” Yet how often have I (you) allowed fear to drive my decisions. A lesson I hope I have learned.

 

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.