Tag: fear
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What Must You Conquer to ‘Possess the Land’ God Has Promised You?
Caleb had audacious faith. Faith enough to silence the naysayers all around him. Faith that God could win the battle for a prize piece of land.
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The God-shape behind the vacuum…
My cat is afraid of the vacuum. Not when it sits quietly in the closet or in whichever room it was last forgotten. Not when it meekly allows itself to be wheeled through one room to get to another. But plug that vacuum in and hit the power button, and my cat flees from a room […]
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Confronting fear — reluctantly…
I think I will have nightmares — like my daymares — from Sunday’s “surprise.” My husband didn’t have to work — a rarity for a Sunday — and when he said he had a “surprise” for me, I envisioned a day enjoying being together. Perhaps a nice meal somewhere other than my kitchen. A long walk. […]
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One stingray a chicken doth make…
In addition to my ability to return from a beach vacation as pale as when I arrived, I pride myself on my X-ray vision. My polarized, prescription sunglasses make me invincible on the Gulf Coast. When the sun is shining on the emerald Gulf of Mexico, my glasses allow me to see right to the […]
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Now I lay me down to sleep…
Fear is a terrible thing. Last night, as we laid down to sleep, I told my husband that the top of my toes were burning. “Really?” asked the physical therapist and the knower of all things health-related. “That is a classic sign of neuropathy. Most typically something diabetics suffer.” “I usually joke with my patients,” […]
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The fear of no future…
“If the hardest thing I have to do today is remember not to put on deodorant, this will be a good day.” That was my thought as I got into the shower this morning, the morning of my annual mammogram. I then promptly doused my hair with shower soap and wondered why my shampoo felt […]
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No longer worrying that “it could happen to me”…
I’ve been reading the book of Job with my literature students recently, and we all agree that we wouldn’t want to claim Job’s comforters for ourselves. They weren’t very comforting. Sure, when Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar first arrived, they grieved with calamity Job silently—but once they opened their mouths, their apparent support for Job deteriorated […]
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