![]() ![]() Feel the fear, let it consume you, and then do it.’” “It is a mountain to climb,” says co-founder Aivale Cole, who is singing Freia in the first of the four operas, Das Rheingold. Siegfried was a hit three years ago, and I thought: ‘If you can do it, then do it. “But I’ve been thinking about it since 2007. “Everyone says that,” he says during a break in rehearsals when I suggest he is mad to take this on. Except that Sani Muliaumaseali’i, the co-founder of the collective and driving force behind the project, refuses to see it in those terms. Surely an act of hubris that will invite nemesis, even from gods facing imminent twilight. Gafa (pronounced Nafa and meaning “family” in Samoan), however, are performing all four of Wagner’s herculean works on successive Saturdays. Opera houses spend years plotting their Ring cycles, adding the parts of the tetralogy incrementally, usually year by year. Martin, A Game of Thrones (New York: Bantam Books, 1996), 16 (adapted).Here is an insane undertaking: a small London-based arts collective, Gafa, run by singers of Samoan heritage, putting on a complete Ring cycle – four vast operas, almost 15 hours of music – in a church in Putney, southwest London. Your strength is not in you, but in the Lord who is God over all.ġGeorge R.R. Address out-of-control anxiousness in your own heart and the hearts of others. Be gentle with those who are afraid, yet strong and firm in the promises of God. Something that God says, like in Psalm 46. Amen.įURTHER MEDITATION: Where do you see fear in you and around you? Have something to say about it. Strengthen my faith, and my resolve to face my fears with your promising word. PRAYER: Teach me that it’s okay to be afraid, God, as long as fear is servant and not master. Therefore we will not fear” (Psalm 46:1,2). ![]() ![]() “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. As long as at the same time, with the same measure, I am brave because God’s promises make me so. There is something bigger, fast and stronger, for sure! But we belong to someone who is even bigger, faster and stronger. The Bible frequently urges, “ Don’t be afraid.” This is not denying the existence of fear, but rather calling us to acknowledge that fear is not the master, not in control, not the last word. But if that is all we have, all we face, all there is to the situation, then there is no hope. Middle-schoolers who are bullied can’t face going to school another day.įear. The stock market is doing cartwheels and triggering reactions of fear.Ī soldier faces his return home to his family and a civilian world of finding a job and driving in traffic with post-traumatic stress and uncertainty. Living only in this acknowledgement make fear the master.Ĭoronavirus is spreading uncontrollably and the world responds with fear. It is not the absence of fear, but the acknowledgement that something is bigger, faster, and stronger. “ That is the only time you can be brave.”1Ĭourage, they say, is fear walking. “ Is it possible to be brave if you’re afraid?” the first asked. The other countered, “ Others say he was afraid.” “ Some say he died bravely,” one of the warriors recalled with a hint of pride and approval. Two warrior are remembering how another warrior was killed in battle. ![]()
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