Years ago Alan Paton, a great South African novelist, wrote about his country in a number of stories about living under the tyranny of apartheid society. The article became something of a classic. It had the title, "The Challenge of Fear." He talked about how our lives were determined not so much by forces or powers outside of us, but by the fears that are inside of us. That is what controls our lives. Fears, in the case of South Africa, that are nurtured by separation and segregation, and ignorance and pride, fears that hold the whole society, black and white, in bondage.

He concluded that article with his own personal word. He said, "What then has life taught me? She has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She has taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, and to leave the rest to God. It is a lesson that I learned twice. I learned it in my youth with Sir Galahad and the Holy Grail, and I learned it in my age as Christ, and the road to a cross."