{"id":228,"date":"2012-05-09T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what-do-you-fear\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:59:00","slug":"what-do-you-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what-do-you-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Fear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef01676653c641970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File0001587820034\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef01676653c641970b image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef01676653c641970b-800wi\" title=\"File0001587820034\" \/><\/a><br \/>If you&#39;re like me, my fears are ever present. This is not a confession that I live in daily fear, just a confession that, like you, I do battle with them. Part of the human condition I suppose. I wish more people would be willing to do battle in this area. Fears are so paralyzing.<\/p>\n<p>The trick or method is not giving into our fears. Easy for me to write, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Well, consider this reality from my life. I had a nightmare a few months ago where I was at the end of my life. I knew I was at the end because someone was with me in a waiting room representing God. He told me he was sad to tell me that I had missed my destiny. I began to cry.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward and I wake from the dream, or nightmare in my mind, and in that early morning I feel panic. I start to wonder if I&#39;m on the wrong track, I start to question what I&#39;ve accomplished, I start to think I&#39;m running out of time.<\/p>\n<p>Fears.<\/p>\n<p>Those fears still come to visit me from time to time. But when I remember the following, I don&#39;t give in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have done more in my life than my background would suggest I would.<\/li>\n<li>I have been blessed to touch people with the written word (book and otherwise).<\/li>\n<li>I have been asked to tell my story for the benefit of others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I write all this, not as a feel-good-about-myself moment, but to illustrate truth. Truth that I can verify and truth that is a weapon against a fear that is false. But like you, I have to stop, breathe and remind myself of, again, what is true.<\/p>\n<p>Reminding one-self of the truth is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re like me, my fears are ever present. This is not a confession that I live in daily fear, just a confession that, like you, I do battle with them. Part of the human condition I suppose. I wish more people would be willing to do battle in this area. Fears are so paralyzing.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[889,215,891,888,893,892,890,692,887],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning","tag-anxiety","tag-fear","tag-fearful","tag-fears","tag-fighting-fear","tag-nightmares","tag-trepidation","tag-truth","tag-what-do-you-fear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}