5 Minute Friday: Broken

I missed last week- well at least on Friday- but here I am to write my 5 minutes free and fearless. It's the way that we (this little gaggle of writers) tap into our imaginations and write for 5 minutes straight without worrying. Join us!

My 5 minutes on "Broken"

I've got bits and pieces of a burning book on this computer. I've poured words on fear and fright out of my head and onto this screen and it just seems so disjointed and it never comes together quite the way my heartbeat sounds.

I'm the girl who has gone round and round with fear. I'm still taking my fair share of black eyes and bloody lips from it's attacks, but I'm fighting on and I know that so many of you are too, but the difference between so many of you and me is that some of you are living beat down to the ground by the pushing pressure of fear and anxiety.

I've been there.

I've been the one on the losing side of the battle and I know all to well the way it can affect every inch of you. 

That's why I write these words and save them secure in a desktop folder. These words are for me. These words are for you, the fear strugglers, the anxious mamas, the worried women. I need them as much as you do. I need to shout from the rooftops that my story of fear has different characters and plotlines, but my story of victory over fear is the same as your tale.

The way to victory isn't through overcoming fear but through knowing the One who overcomes.

An anxious heart can't conjure security. The fear shrunk soul needs a larger than life, Holy fearless God to fight it's battles. There is nothing this old world has broken that God can't put back together whole, no battle weary bumped and bruised fear broken soul that He can't puzzle piece whole.

My words. My fear story. My choosing joy and killing fear story is a shared story. It is the story of brave us and I know that you need it as much as I do. I'll keep piecing it together and fighting the fear that is still nipping at my heels.

Sisters, friends, I'm working on my first e-book, Fearless: How to Live a Brave Life in a Scary World (it is on my journey through fear, if you didn't catch that) and it is slow going. Would you pray that I would be disciplined in writing and that I wouldn't listen to the voices in my mind that tell me it isn't any good? Thanks friends.