Living in Fear

I love reading a good book. When I am reading a good book, the book takes me to places I have never been. I get all caught up in the lives of the characters, and I get a little depressed when I finished the story. It almost feels like the end of a relationship sometimes. I just finished this book called Mrs. Big by Maryann Reid. It is a story about the women who go after professional athletes and what happens to one particular woman who is so stuck on the material things that she loses herself in the process. I love a good book with a message that makes me think about my life. While my life is nothing like the lives of the rich and famous in this book. I could relate to one on going theme of the book. The book was about fear. As I read the book and as the book came to it's climax I realized that I have been living in fear much like the characters in the book, and the things that I fear the most are the always the things that seem to come to pass in my life. The main character in the book, Loletta, visits a psychic and the woman told her that she was creating the turbulence in her life through her fears. That struck a cord with me, because the things I have feared the most have manifested themselves in my life. It saddens me to think that I did these things to myself and I am still doing it myself everyday. I had to take a long look at myself, ask myself why are you afraid and say "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." I never quite understood that statement until now. I mean why keep fearing tomorrow, Tomorrow isn't even promised to you. Why should you live in fear? I need to be Thankful for all that I have been blessed with, wash all my fears away and move on with my life. I need to stop waiting for the bad things to happen, stop creating negative things in my life.I didn't realize when I live in fear I tie Gods hands and I know that God has a plan for me. I will no longer speak fear in my life. So tonight I speak against the things that I am afraid of such as: failure, lack of finances, and being alone. In my life there is success, an abundance in my finances and no more loneliness, this is God's plan for me. Now I know why I love teaching, because you can learn some very important things from a book.