I’ve been doing a lot of personal, emotional work during the pandemic. Not because I’m so brave and ambitious necessarily. It just seems that my growth requires a good look in the mirror these days. One of the things that came up for me in CPE was an understanding that I don’t have a deep relationship with certain emotions, namely fear. Because I downplay my own fears, I also tend to downplay the fears of others. That’s not such a great habit for an aspiring hospital chaplain. Turns out, fear is a really important human emotion.