Billy Horton

“Unanswered Prayers”- My recent blog about how God’s plan is better than ours. We just need to wait on His timing.

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Blessed to be coaching both of my boys on Varsity .baseball this spring!

When I was young, I was scared to go down into our basement at night. It’s a little embarrassing to admit that now, but when you’re five years old that single flight of stairs looked like a path into a dungeon. To top it off we lived out in the country, and there were a lot of wild animals that roamed around. We had a huge lake in our backyard, and in the front of the house there were dense woods across the road. Your mind starts playing tricks on you when you’re halfway down the stairs and you start hearing creepy noises outside.

The thing is our basement wasn’t scary at all when the lights were on. It was fully furnished and it’s where we spent our Sundays watching football and had a lot of our family events like Christmas down there. I actually have a lot of great memories in that room. However, in order for me to turn the lights on, I had to traverse down the steps into darkness. The stairs were lit, but I was walking down into a pitch-black room. The fear came from what could be in that room. It was the unknown.

That’s kind of how fear works. You can make things out to be worse than they really are. You worry about what could happen, which puts you in a defensive state. It can change your decision making and keep you from doing what you love or know what is best. A great acronym I heard for FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. There may be nothing actually going wrong, but the more you worry about something, the bigger the situation becomes. It can turn into paralysis by analysis. Here are 3 things to do when you are in a difficult situation and find yourself battling fear.

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