Loving Out the Fear ... Making Me Brave

I've never thought of myself as brave, even though that is what my name means, valor. In the last post, fear being loved out was the theme. Abiding in God's love is what I am to AIM for, the cure for fear. AIM is my word for this year. In this journal page, I continue to express my word of the year and my spiritual journey through art. I love music that makes me see pictures, and also have a song for this year: "You Make Me Brave" by Amanda Cook. When I first heard it, I could see it and knew it was the song for this season.

If I were to pick an album for this year, it would be You Make Me Brave by Bethel Music. We bought the CD and DVD version. It it one of those where seeing it enhances the hearing of it. I highly recommend it! Here is Amanda Cook singing You Make Me Brave in the YouTube video below.

Abiding in God's loving presence is the key for me in life's journey.

It's sinking in deeper, that I am a child of God, and can be free from fear because God loves me. 

Below is a new song by Jonathan and Melissa Helser from the new

Bethel Music,

We Will Not Be Shaken

. It is a powerful statement of being a child of God, no longer a slave to fear.