What Are You Afraid Of?
Dear Friends, Many of our fears, when expressed aloud, can seem irrational. Those who know me well know my fear of spiders. Why would anyone be afraid of these small creatures? I can't even really explain it myself. I can cope fairly well with the smaller ones, but the larger ones with big bodies just send a shudder through me and my heart pounds, and usually it takes a cry out to Jason to come and deal with it before I can begin to calm down and relax. One September as I lay sleeping in bed I felt something tickling me on my shoulder, being only half awake, and not knowing what it was, I just brushed it off with my hand. (By the way, in case you were wondering, it was a big spider.) It landed on Jason's chest, which woke him up, he grabbed it and flung it away from him where it hit the wall with a soft thud! Sad to say, (for me anyway) it crawled off somewhere and we never found it. I struggled to return to sleep, believing that it might fi...