That’s a principle that will last until the end of time. You can pray all you want to, but you will always sow what you reap. Our main focuses are different, but everyone has something or someone they are passionate about.īut don’t get me wrong-whether you are a Christian or not, you will have to put in the work to achieve your dreams. This is why Christians and non-Christians can both find bravery. After praying about my fears until I could pray no more, I figured that God just wasn’t into answering my prayers about my fears, so I eventually put in the research to find that passion is what ultimately pushes people to bravery. I prayed and prayed about it, but fear remained. Sure, I covered up my fearfulness to the best of my abilities, but that didn’t cancel out the fact that it was still there. I’ve been a part of other churches where people mess things up too-it’s only human nature-so my relationship with God isn’t contingent on mistakes, but these mishaps do provide good stories to tell later.īut my misunderstanding of fear didn’t stop in my adolescence it would continue until my early 20s. He neglected to tell everyone that fear is normal and that everyone fears, and it skewed my perspective of fear and bravery for the worse. (If I couldn’t find my parents in a store, I thought I had been left behind in the rapture.) But people mess things up, like the pastor I just mentioned.

The pastor used 2 Timothy 1:7-KJV of course-to prove his claims: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” The problem I had with what he had to say was that I was extremely fearful as a kid.

But here I will talk more about my life perspective from growing up in the Church, and maybe you can relate to my story. I don’t explore my relationship with God much in my book because it’s not a Christian book. The introduction of my upcoming book, The Bravest You, begins with me sitting in church when I was 10 years old, listening to a pastor tell everyone in the congregation that fear was wrong and that we shouldn’t fear.

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