I was lying in bed last night listening to John snore (if there was a soundtrack to my life, snoring would be half of it) and I started thinking about the book review post. I thought about how we can spread out in all directions if we want to, but sometimes we let fear stunt our growth.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of not being accepted, fear of being judged, fear of not being good enough, and so on. Don't you think we do that sometimes?
There is a scripture I love in the New Testament, it is 2 Timothy 1:7, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and of a sound mind."
I think when we embrace the power within us (our talents and abilities?), and employ our sound mind (our knowledge?), and leave our heart open (to learn new things, and loving makes us larger people) we forget about the fear and become unstoppable!
Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of not being accepted, fear of being judged, fear of not being good enough, and so on. Don't you think we do that sometimes?
There is a scripture I love in the New Testament, it is 2 Timothy 1:7, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and of a sound mind."
I think when we embrace the power within us (our talents and abilities?), and employ our sound mind (our knowledge?), and leave our heart open (to learn new things, and loving makes us larger people) we forget about the fear and become unstoppable!
The older I get, the less fearful I have become, but there are definitely times I have to remind myself, "Okay, I can do this, they can only tell me, 'no.' I do know what I am doing, it will turn out fine." "I don't care what people think." etc.
I think once we put our fear aside, we can really make things happen!
I feel my branches spreading out already!
GOOOOOO TEAM!
2 comments:
So so true. I'm (slowly) learning this.
Love you! Glad you're back. Miss you already!
Yay for branches spreading! So, what book next...I'm itchin to read something already.
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