Living in Fear and Insecurity.

I'm reading a book right now about a character that had some pretty horrific things happen to her.  The funny thing is, the book is one of a series and in this third novel, our heroine (the books are science fiction) has something horrible happen to her, and you think she is going to save the day yet again, because that is what happens in fiction books usually.  But she gets scarred because she was rendered helpless.

Against the odds, this thing happens that we never think will happen.  How do we respond?
The trauma of the event rattles us, and fear snakes in.
In this current book, she is dealing with this trauma that took place, and thinks she's even past it, but the pain and fear snake in and cripple her with panic and anxiety attacks, ceasing to respond normally to whatever situation she is in.

Right now, something or someone knows her fears, and is somehow capitalizing on them making our heroine live in fear and panic, and she is unable to really see what is going on.

I relate all this to our lives.
Living in fear.
Living in fear of the stupidest day to day things, up to things we know we are called to do by God, like talk to someone walking down the street, or be willing to be vulnerable in a relationship with another person because you know that somehow, God wants to do something in whoever the person's life.  Whatever the reason, I know we can be hindered by our nervous fear.  We do not call it out for what it is, and forget to live our story by zoning into the TV and living someone else's story.
Not engaging and tackling fears in our own lives I think can be the biggest travesty as we no longer participate in living and engaging the world around us, the people around us...

We see and know how everything is supposed to go on our films and TVs and computers, yet, don't get in on it.  How have we become outsiders in our own lives.
Kinda weird concept, and we don't all fall under these categories, but I know we've looked at our neighbor and wanted to be more like them because we're insecure in what we are, and insecure in what God made in us.

Insecurity and fear can go hand in hand I think.
Maybe.
Just maybe.