Courage

Sometimes it takes courage to do something.

Belief takes courage. When the Lord says "I will never leave you or forsake you," it can be a leap of faith to walk in that knowledge. Because in the world we live in, no one else can make that promise. No one else can guarantee they will always be with you, always be for you. So to walk forward believing that Jesus is who He says He is? Brave. Warrior-like bravery for those who choose to walk weilding weapons of prayer and the Word and fighting back the darkness that threatens to overwhelm and destroy.

Sometimes it takes courage to do nothing.

I am a control freak. And a doer. And a perfectionist. And a legalist. Somebody get me a therapist!

In the not-so-recent past if I ran into a fear (fear of failure, fear of not having enough money, fear of not being a good wife, fear of not being a good mother...get the picture?), my solution was to "do" something. Anything. It released my anxiety and allowed me to be too distracted to really think about what it was that was bothering me. It was a place of crippling fear where I was Queen and grace was a stranger. So to cease striving and grasping for the solution that was never there, I am learning to open my fist and put the balm of the Word into the fingernail marks I fear are permanently etched into my palms. DON'T do anything? Double brave.