Sunday was the Norris family reunion, and I was asked to give the devotional. So, yeah...talking in front of people is probably my biggest irrational fear, and I have a physiological reaction to it each time. I'm not talking just something little like sweaty hands or something. I turn red--bright red that starts on my chest and quickly makes its way up to turn my face scarlet. My hands and voice get shaky, I start losing my voice (Nathan lovingly told me it was like I was a teenage boy in puberty...yeah, lots of support there), I barely breathe... You know, just exactly the type of thing you want to see in a speaker. I wrote out everything I was going to say, fully intending to "stick to the script" and just read. I could do that, right? I'm a writer, not a speaker; surely, though, just reading my writing wouldn't be that big a deal. And then, I started talking...and instantly I had this crazy thought that it would somehow be a bad thing for me to just ...
just me, stepping out of the boat in faith, trying not to focus on the waves around me