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Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words

you need to connect with your Father in heaven.

No matter what's going on in your life today, you can trust that God

wants to hear from you. Right after this short word from our sponsor, we'll

pray through today's prayer on fear together. A prayer for when fear creeps in, written by Alicia Searle, read by Leah Gerard.

When I'm afraid, I put my trust in you. Psalm 563.

I'm scared, I whispered to my husband

as we sat in the lobby of a psychologist office

awaiting our appointment.

We were about to bear our hearts and souls to a

woman we'd never met before. Our hearts were already heavy and utterly raw,

feeling as if they'd been rubbed by the roughest same paper.

Yet there we sat, waiting for our names to be called, only to openly share the struggles and challenges

we'd been facing with our daughter over the last two years. Was this the answer? Would this

cause some of the dreaded fear we've been lugging around for so long to finally subside? We had no idea what we were in for. Everything looked bleak and felt

as if we'd been living in a fog. My weary and heavily burdened Mama Heart wrestled with wondering what the outcome might look like,

and if a diagnosis would bring relief or more pain.

Would we be judged as ill going to be able to handle?

My husband took my hand and glanced my way to share that he was scared to.

My husband took my hand and glanced my way to share that he was scared to. Fear. Just the sound of the word

can strike a chord. That's because it is such a powerful force. It can either drive us closer to God or cause us to drift away as we clumsily seek comfort in any source of calm.

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