Joyous Thirst

A quick google search of the word "safe" will come up with this definition: protected from or not exposed to danger or risk.  Not likely to be harmed or lost.  Fear is absolutely a tool used by the enemy to turn our focus away from God and towards our own perception.  I learned back when I used to play golf that there were two types of fears: Rational and Irrational.  Rational fear is a legitimate fear, for example:  If I am swimming in the ocean and sharks are circling me....that is a rational legitimate fear.  Irrational fear is one that has no merit or even reason to be there, for example:  If I'm scared to go for a run in my neighborhood because a plane could crash on top of me.  One of the fears has a place, but the other doesn't....That is if you are only seeing the situations from the context of the human perspective.  Let's change the context to the supernatural power of God! There are countless stories in the Bible in which fear...

I took a little break from writing the past couple weeks because I've been quite overwhelmed with "just life."  Do you ever get that?  The place where everything seems to sum up to the "I'm in over my head moment."  The interesting thing is that during these moments where I'm in over my head, the thing that is needed most is alone time with God, yet I just try harder to insulate myself with "busyness" or activities to take my mind off the circumstances.  It's like I try and create motions....just to go through them.  It must be frustrating for God to see me always try and take control of situations, even though I know full and well that the only thing I can control is the pouring of my focus onto him in any circumstance.  Unfortunately, sometimes during circumstances I'll almost point at God and ask "Why!?" instead of asking God: "Who?!" I could go down the list of things that have happened over the past month that...