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The Story

Have you ever just tried to read your bible chapter by chapter? I have and it is so hard to fully understand it. Plus it gets really overwhelming. I have been doing a bible study called Seamless, and it has changed the way I understand the bible. She presents it as a story and once you go through week by week you gain so much more understanding and are able to read the bible so differently. I was able to start putting people together that I haven’t been able to do before. It was amazing to sit here and realize that I have such a overall greater understanding than I did before I started.  Click the picture below for more of this bible study.    I recently read in one of my books, and I cannot remember which one, but it said to stop reading your bible. If you are just reading it to read it, you aren’t fully understanding it. I realized just sitting here constantly reading the bible but not really grasping or understanding it makes it almost impossible to truly understand what He is actually trying to tell us. For me the first time…

Fear

“Fear wakes us up. Fear reminds us to fight. It’s only when we know fear that we ever understand the depth of our need for its opposite-love. Fear can either keep us standing in one place, or it can propel us toward something better.”- Hannah Brencher- Come Matter Here   Do you ever fear that your life is so good that something horrible is going to happen to you? Just this week our family was dealt heartbreaking news that cancer has found its way into our family yet again. I’m pretty sure everyone has had to deal with cancer, and it’s the worst thing ever. Some people have unexpected things happen to their families that are just down right terrible, and I just sit here and think it’s going to happen to me, my life is going to good. Fear can easily come up with a mind of its own and quickly take over every decision that you make if you let it. It cripples you. I have a lot of fears relating to so many things that I cannot control, that’s ultimately what fear comes from…