Fear is, I think, the great threat to a meaningful life. Fear kills more lives than any army could. Fear shuts us down, kills our dreams, stops our plans, holds us back, makes us small. Fear tells us to wait, to hide, to run, be paralyzed with indecision. The meaningful life means risk, challenge, change uncertainty. Fear is its hidden companion, it’s silent witness, it’s pursuer and poisoner. If you turn from fear, you will walk into a meaningful. Not an easy life. Not a perfect life. A meaningful life, gloriously fulfilling and and exciting and terrifying and difficult. There is only one thing that devastates fear, shrinks it, and runs if off. Faith. It is impossible to live a meaningful life without faith.