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If I woke up tomorrow with no fear, what would I do first?

May 12, 2022
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| Categories: Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Fear, Uncategorized

I’m always amazed at the lack of fear my kids have. They walk over logs high over creeks, my daughter rides horses, and my son pitches in baseball games. These things can stir up fears in me.

Fear can be good. It can serve as an alarm bell that something is about to happen or is happening that we need to flee from or be careful around. It may keep us from doing something we shouldn’t do. It really wouldn’t be a good thing if we were to wake up with no fear…

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Who Am I Trying to Please?

June 4, 2020
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| Categories: Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Yourself, Fear, Questions, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized

I’d like to think that at age 48 I’ve learned not to worry about pleasing others or to fear what other people think.

But it turns out that I do. Certainly, I’ve grown in this in certain areas of my life. In other areas, I need to check myself. One area I’m particularly aware of is politics.

Maybe it’s because we, as a society, have drawn such hard lines politically and I just don’t find myself aligning with any one place completely. It seems so much of life beliefs need…

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If You Feel Like You’re Free Falling

July 23, 2019
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| Categories: Fear, Stress, Uncategorized, Worry

Do you ever feel like you’re free falling?

If you’re a thrill seeker, maybe that doesn’t sound so bad. For me, the feeling doesn’t make me excited or happy. The feeling makes me want to run away, hide, or quit.

If you are contemplating quitting, hiding, or running away, I want to enourage you today!

I felt like I was free falling right through 2018 and into 2019 like a helpless eaglet slipping out of her nest. I knew that I had to trust that the Lord’s everlasting arms were underneath me instead…

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When Longing For More Is Good

January 21, 2017
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| Categories: Encouragement, Fear, Hope, Joy

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With the recent ice storm in the midwest, I was reminded of these amazing images I was able to capture a couple of years ago and the thoughts that they triggered.  Join me this week on a post from my past?

“Those ice cakes may have traveled all the way from South Dakota,”  my dad said as he clicked away on his camera.

The Missouri River runs through my town carrying ice cakes with it toward the gulf.  My dad, the kids and I explored it.  We watched the cakes quickly race…

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Fear Fighting: Beating The Beast of Worry

December 27, 2016
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| Categories: Fear, Worry

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I know a true warrior and her name is Kelly Balarie.  She wars against fear and she also wars for encouragement in faith, hope, and love. I don’t know about you, but I need people like that on my side! That is why I want to introduce her and her new book, Fear Fighting, to you as she guest posts here this week:

I woke up in the middle of the night, my mind tossing and turning worse than my body had been ten minutes ago.

Everything hit me at once: I‘m…

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When You Fear What Life May Bring

August 2, 2014
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| Categories: Fear

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I’ve been enjoying some early before-the-kids-wake-up bike rides this summer.  My usual route takes me over a bridge which hovers over the enormous churning Missouri River.

For me, riding over the Missouri River bridge by myself early in the morning is about as daring as life gets!  My morning bike ride, when I take it, might as well be Mt. Everest.

I used to do truly dangerous things without even noticing that they were dangerous.  I did them without much of a second thought.

That was before I had kids and before…

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God-based vs. Fear-based Decisions

March 29, 2014
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| Categories: Fear

The Magic House…

A magnificent old house in St. Louis filled with everything a child (and adult) longs to play with but doesn’t realize yet.  There is nothing commonplace or boring.  Unique excitement awaits around every corner and in every nook and cranny.  A three- story slide, a secret room behind a bookcase, a shadow room, a static electricity ball that makes your hair stand up on end.  I could go on.

I’ve been going there since I was a kid and I just went with my kids and one of my mommy friends two days ago.  Every time I’ve…

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