An angry giant tried to conquer our town. He rearranged people and buildings and demanded to be in charge. He frightened us because he represented the worst features of ourselves. Our rash and brutal emotions. Our cranky and selfish impulses. When we confronted him, he would bellow and shake his fists, offering us a fight that we would surely lose. Huddled together on the edge of town, we watched as he uprooted our trees and shops, replanting them as he saw fit. Then we had an idea. We offered him a jigsaw puzzle, an extraordinarily complicated map of the world with fifty-thousand pieces and we told him it was the most important project in town and only he was smart enough to complete it. Smiling he sat down and began organizing the pieces, separating the oceans from the land, and we congratulated him on his progress while we put out town back together again. He's still there today, humming to himself while he works on the islands of the South Pacific.
Do not confront your difficulties directly. Keep them at a distance and these challenges will lost their strength. The best way to conquer fear is to focus on doing good works.
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