FEAR! Coming face to face with your fear!

Normally I complete everyday task without fear. I drive to work without fear. I meet new people everyday without fear. I help people make major life choices without fear. This all changed a little last week. I was entertaining myself and Sasha (my dog) when I decided that I should get caught up on laundry. As I walked into the laundry room I noticed a long, thin, gross thing crawling away. That gross thing was a snake. Yes, a snake in the home where I live. YIKES! What is a girl to do when one of the things that she fear most in life in crawling around in her favorite room in the house. Ok, the laundry room is not my favorite room in the house. But I like to clean and I get frustrated when the laundry pile get more than two loads high in the hamper. So I called my roommate the owner of the house. Dear friend of mine, you have a snake in the laundry room. After screaming like a little girl for a little bit I came to reason. I would buy tons of those sticky traps; place them all over the room with the hope that the evil snake would stick to the trap. And then I realized that I would have to enter that room to place the traps. Enter my good friend Lis. She helped me place the traps; we when saw the small evil one. The next day when I came home from work I checked some of the traps. I was afraid to check the ones in the back of the laundry room. Lis offered to help. Well the little evil one was stuck to the trap. After many bloody screams and high pitch laughs Lis and I manged to get the still moving snake into the trash can and out to the curb.

When though I go though normal activities without fear of evil. I was able to get past my fear and face evil head on with the support of my friend. That's what being about of a faith community is all about for me. Knowing that I can call upon a friend when I am in fear and have to face evil. And for that I thank God for my faith community that offers me support. Even when it comes to snakes!