I will be completely straight forward with you...life has beaten down on me a lot as of recently. I feel as if I have no time for anyone in my life anymore and this includes myself. Between working full time and being a full time student I never have time to enjoy life. Or so I thought. I have been afraid of failure. Terrified that I will fail at my job, at school, at the relationships in my life. I had to start asking myself why I was afraid of these things. The answer was quite simple...I wasn't trusting God. I wasn't placing my burdens and worries on Him. I would wake up every morning believing I had to handle everything on my own. This is the reason why life became increasingly difficult. When you feel as if the world is riding on your shoulders and that you have to deal with everything on your own you quickly become unsatisfied, withdrawn, depressed, and afraid. So for the past few months I have been stressing about school and how to pay for this and that, etc. Eventually, finals week rolled around. I thought I failed every class only to realize I passed all of them...3 with A's! Not only that, I had worked more than I normally do and was blessed with a nice paycheck. How did I do this? I didn't. That's the point of this post. God did it. He has been by my side the whole time, helping me, guiding me, protecting me. Without His help I would have failed some classes and probably would not be excelling at my place of work, nor would I be at peace with the relationships in my life. The moment I saw those grades and saw my paycheck a vast amount of peace washed over me. I realized I didn't have to place everything on my own shoulders. God's holding my hand through life and He ultimately controls the outcome. So if He is here with me why be afraid or stressed? If you simply throw all of your faith and trust in Him life becomes increasingly beautiful!