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Fear is the heartbeat of the powerless. So writes Cor de Jonghe.  That’s true. We can deal with most everything, except fear. The late Belgium spiritual writer, Bieke Vandekerkehove, in a very fine book, The Taste of Silence, shared very honestly about the demons that beset her as she faced a terminal illness at age nineteen.  She singled out three particular demons that tormented her as she faced the prospect of death, sadness, anger, and fear.