Deal with IT

It's summer time and my favorite guy is living with me...my nephew!  It's our time to have fun and just be, but we both sort of processed through an important life lesson yesterday. When he's at my house, it's his responsibility to take the trash out.  He has to empty all of the trash cans, take the trash can out of the garage and replace all of the trash cans with fresh bags.

The first couple of times I'd walk around the house with him ensuring that he got everything, was able to open the garage door and replaced all trash bags.  Well yesterday he had to do the process by himself.  He did everything great until he had to lift the garage door and potentially touch one of the many spiders (or their webs) that surrounded the door.  He pleaded with me to open it for him.  Then he  nearly begged for me to open the door partially for him because he is extremely afraid of spiders.  He HATES them.

I was tempted to open the garage door for him because I know what it's like to be afraid of something.  But I didn't.  There are plenty of things that we are going to be afraid of in life.  Sometimes we will have help as we deal with them, but sometimes we won't and we need to have enough within us to endure and complete the task.  He cried, fought and begged.  But then....he became resourceful.  He found a hanger, cracked the door, swipped the bottom of the door free from spiders & webs and found a large stick to help him open the door.  He completed the task and realized that he had everything within him to get it done.

For as much as I want help on certain aspects of this journey, or have someone else do it for me all together; I have to muster up everything I have within me and get it done.  Putting on my "big girl panties," trusting in the direction of the Lord and being resourceful helps us realize that we are not as weak as we might think.  We have to stop running from fear huh?