Date: 4/12/2024
<br>Author: Mike Kelley
<br>Title: Mike's Minute
<br><br>Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. <br><br>Psalm 23:4<br><br>Years ago, a well-known television circus show developed an act involving Bengal tigers. The act was performed in front of a live audience. <br><br>One night, the tiger trainer went into the cage with several tigers and the door was routinely locked behind him. Spotlights flooded the cage and television cameras moved in close so the audience could see every detail as he skillfully put the tigers through their paces. <br><br>In the middle of the performance, something potentially terrifying happened. The lights went out! For thirty long seconds, the trainer was locked in the cage with the tigers in the darkness. With their superb night vision, the tigers could see him but he could not see them. <br><br>The trainer survived the ordeal. When the lights finally came back on, he finished his performance. <br><br>When the trainer was asked how he felt, he admitted to feeling chilling fear at first. But he then realized something. Though he couldn’t see the big cats, they didn’t know he couldn’t see them. <br><br>He said, “I just kept cracking my whip and talking to them until the lights came on. They never knew I couldn’t see them as well as they could see me.”  <br><br>Keep talking back to the tigers that seem to be stalking you! <br><br>Remember, courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear...not the absence of fear.<br>