Facing your fears head-on.

My very first blog post! Here goes nothing!

Again, if you are here reading this, Thank you from the bottom of my heart, this has been a something the Lord has put on my heart to do for awhile now and fear has really shackled me in fear of judgement, insecurities, and pretty much all the above.

Now, I don't know about you but I think that we all let Fear play a huge roll in all of our lives at some point. The difference in being a adult vs being a child that fear has taken on a whole new meaning.

Thinking back when I was a kiddo, the biggest fears that I had were falling off my bike, breaking a bone, or getting caught doing something I was told 100 not to do but did it anyways, speaking in front of the class, making bad grades, ect.

Fears as adult have taken on a whole new meaning.

Being a adult is not near as fun as I always dreamed it would be, Ive lived more life in the past 10 years than I truly like to admit. God test us, and when we go through those testing seasons you better get ready. In those seasons is when I truly found the true meaning of F.E.A.R.

Being responsible, financially, mentally, emotionally, and having to put those big girl panties on when you don't really have a choice.

Being a momma, having this brand new life that you are supposed to know how to take care of with no book to show you step by step of how or what to do. Learning how to deal with toddlers that act like teenagers and loving them so much that you try your hardest not to let your fears be put onto them so they don't miss out on fun things because we are scared they are going to get hurt...(yes mommas Im calling you out, we all do it)

Being a wife, loving your husband so much but letting those insecurity fears take over and let us start fires when the problem started with us in the first place because we have fears.

(another blog on that for another day)

Why are we so scared to face fear?

Because fear is judgement, fear is scary, fear is uncomfortable, and fear is the unknown.

I was speaking to my mom one day a few years ago and we were discussing something regarding my life and I told her I am just scared to go forward with this because I have fear of the unknown.

My mom being the Christian woman she is called me out and said "Stormy, run towards to your fears head-on and you will learn that overcoming those fears is a lot easier than running from them and more times than not the outcome is never what you think it will be."

From that day, I have continued to try and live by that. It is not always easy and it is not always fun but just like this here I am writing my very first Blog post and facing that fear head on. Do I still have fear that I will be judged, not good enough, etc? Sure.

I am not here to let the enemy win because I know running towards those fears is a lot easier now than looking myself in the mirror years from now saying I wish I would have done that but I let fear have control over me. NOPE. NOT TODAY!

If you have made it this far, thank you!

I pray that some of this helped you understand my side of fear and not letting it stop me from doing greater good in this life. We all have so many hopes and dreams and more times than not, myself included we let fear get in the way of that and we never take that leap of faith unknowing how it will turn out.

I challenge you today, whatever it is big or small.

Take that leap of faith and run towards that fear that is holding you back!

I promise, you will thank yourself.

Until next time,

Hugs from my house to yours!

- Stormy