Fear incarcerates, restrains, overpowers, and paralyzes the mind. It works its way into the human spirit and replaces freedom, joy, and peace with torment, pain, and dread. Someone once said, “The first duty of a man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” I find this to be true, although, feeling afraid has nothing to do with conquering fear. Just ask Gideon. It was Halloween 1998; I was twenty-seven-years old and a mother of three young boys whe