Just a few short months later...
April 26, 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Once again, our world was devasted. I remember how scared I was. I couldn't even imagine something like that happening and yet it had. I had three young children and another on the way, we were living in Arizona at the time.
I remember one night as we were listening to the news about Chernobyl, rubbing my pregnant belly and thinking how can I possibly bring another child into this crazy, messed up world where bad things happen?
A lot of incredibly hard and awful things continue to happen in our world. I won't go into all that well because we see it all on the news, on the internet and on social media. But I remember at the time looking at my precious children and anticipating the birth of a new baby, and knowing that no matter what everything was going to be okay. How did I know it, believe it, because I had faith that depiste my very deep fear the Lord was looking out for me, for my family, and that I just needed to trust that.
The world is a scary place, but I also know that as much as I suffer from anxiety I can't live my life in fear. Fear will consume you, steal away precious moments, and ultimately leave you in a heap in your bed with your covers drawn. How do I know that, I've lived it, I've don't that very thing.
So when I say, have a little faith and just step out the door and enjoy your life, I know what I'm talking about.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart betroubled, neither let it be afraid."
John 14:27
