"For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption." (Romans 8:15, NRSV) My son is five years old. In so many different ways he is becoming a little man right before my eyes. With great courage and an emboldened spirit, he is not afraid to climb fences, squeeze into tight places, hoist himself up into a tree, or dangle from the highest point on the swingset. He has little fear of these things and does more daredevil stunts than even I am aware of. My son is five years old. In so many ways he has much growing up to do. Thunder and lightning are his worst enemy. There is a deeply rooted fear in him that dictates he get out of bed at the slightest rumble of thunder and climb into my bed. He requires medical attention from the smallest of cuts and scrapes, and he often gets it. He is genuinely afraid of many things in his little world because he does not understand them or even know what they are. I cannot expla...