Overcoming Fears

• Spiders
• Lighting matches
• Sweating in front of people
• Boiling water
• Cooking on the stovetop
• Dancing in front of people
• That I wouldn't recognize Ellie the first time I left her in the nursery

These things, at one time or another, have all petrified and immobilized me. Looking back, they're pretty silly.

That fear of fire truly hampered my life, especially in the kitchen. It really took me 5 years of marriage to brown my own hamburger on the stovetop, and until last year, I never made any skillet recipes. Pasta and rice took forever to make because I wouldn't let the water come to a full boil.

It makes me wonder what my life would be like if I really gave every fear over to God. What if I stopped worrying what people would think when I talk about Him? What if I stopped trying to run my life myself and truly gave Him control?

I hope that in a while, I look back on my current fears as silly, too.