I am most afraid of...

I was going to write today's post on the deeper, more life changing things that I'm afraid of...like loss. And how sometimes if Dave's gone longer than expected, I go into panic mode. Even though most of the time it's just because he's made a new friend and they lost track of time while they were chatting (he's so good at meeting new people).

But today I think I'll talk about my fear of snakes, even typing the word just now gives me the chills and makes me want to cry. I'm deathly afraid of snakes. There, I said it.

I used to be a lot worse, and have slowly gotten better about it. I used to start crying if I was taken off guard and a picture of one popped up in a movie or somewhere else...now I'll just have nightmares, but I get those just from talking about them. Tonight should be fun. It's bad, and I'm pretty sure if I ever happened across one Dave would find me passed out cold from the sheer terror of it all. 

And as cute as our little house in North Carolina was, I don't miss it one bit. Why? Because our neighbor (who had grown up in the house we lived in) informed us as we were moving out that the reason his family finally moved out of there was because his Mom found one too many black snakes just hanging out in her living room. Shudders. No thank you! I don't care how cute a house is, that is not ok!

What about you, what are you afraid of?

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Walls.

We all have walls in our lives- things that hold us back, things that we're afraid of, things that keep us from pushing forward and reaching our dreams.

Some we put up ourselves and some are put there by others. Those that we put up ourselves are in our heads, fear and doubt create these walls; while the walls put up by others are often there to make sure we really want what's on the other side of that wall.

But what is it that keeps us from getting over the walls in our life? Some may require we take a step back before we're able to get past them, while others require us to ask for help in order to get a push to the other side.

If we don't get over these obstacles it's our own fault, we allow fear to win. Let's not allow that to happen anymore, deal? Because it can be so beautiful on the other side...