There are 2 scriptures that I’ve heard all my life and have somehow not really ever put the 2 together even though they are back to back. I’ve graduated from 3 Bible Schools, lived on the mission field for 5 years and been a pastor’s wife for almost 12 years. I guess I just never put 2 and 2 together with these verses. Yep, that’s me…worth waiting for. 🙂

2 Timothy 1:6-7  Verse 6 tells us to stir up the gift of God on the inside of us. Then verse 7 says that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind.

It just hit me that since I stirred up the gift of God inside of me during the c3global girls trip I was honored to go on with Lisa Young, I have no longer been afraid of anything. I am so in LOVE with Jesus trusting in His POWER and my MIND HAS BEEN MORE SOUND than in years. Sound mind in that passage means disciplined thinking patterns. Can I be real and raw with you? My thinking patterns have not always been the most disciplined. I’m sure yours have been way more than mine…especially when it comes to chocolate, being sad, mad, Yada Yada. How bout I stop there before my thinking pattern digresses.

I am telling you, since I stirred up the gift inside me on that trip, I have not been the same person. I have no longer been afraid of what people think of me, if this or that will work out, if my life will be a success, or if I am gonna die of Ebola! Fear is GONE! Power to live, really live is part of my everyday life now. Love flows out of my heart because the gift inside me is ignited to serve others and for life to be really about others and I’m not resentful about it any more. Instead embracing it. Though I’m working harder than I have since I was in my 20s, I’m hardly working because my mind is sound again, my love is full,  His power is acknowledged daily. I promise, when you stop looking back and only look ahead, know where you are going, nothing and nobody can stop you.

I beseech ye therefore sisterhood….(Bible talk for I double dog dare ya) TO STIR UP THE GIFT INSIDE YOU and when you do, email me at hello@happyanyway.org and share your story with me! Who knows?! Maybe-just maybe together we could help others be happy and not afraid, too!