“I’m scared. But it’s my time. I can feel it.”
Kenzie shared these words with me this week as we sat together in a quiet and sacred moment in the temple.
This morning she was officially set apart and begins her 18 months of service as a full time missionary and representative of Jesus Christ.
I love her honesty. The willingness to say she feels fear or anxiety. But I love even more her courage to recognize that even with those feelings, the hour of her mission has come. She can feel it. Her desire to please God and do His will lights the fire of her faith that will carry her forward.
It made me reflect on how often in life I feel scared or inadequate, yet can also feel the call from God. Sometimes the fear comes before the call. Sometimes it comes after, as the adversary tries to creep in and make us feel small, incapable, or unworthy. The question is whether we turn away from the call because of that fear or step through the fear in faith.
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