The Beaver Dam

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  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Psalms 23:4 ESV
  
  It was dusk and I was alone in the middle of a swamp called the Beaver Dam. I had ridden my dirt bike over to my cousin's house that day. He stayed about four miles from us through dense woods and swamp, but we had made a path to ride through the beaver dam.
  
  We were both about ten years old and after playing video games all evening, I realized it was getting dark and I had no headlight, so I started home. Riding through the swamp on a motorcycle at night alone with no lights was scary, but I soon found it could be made much worse.
  
  There were bears in the area and I could feel one behind me. I kept glancing back into the shadows and would give the bike more throttle each time. Before long I was almost wide open on the muddy, rutted path and forgot all about the canal ditch that I had to cross.
  
  I hit the far side of that ditch at about fifty mph and launched way into the air. As the bike and I flipped end over end, I was kicking it to get it started. I landed in a huge pile of mud, rolled a few times, and took straight back off. The wheels had never stopped turning. I was so terrified, and my life was flashing before my eyes, but I made it home safely.
  
  You can make something bad, so much worse than it is. The more that you dwell on it, think about it, talk about it, the more it grows until it will consume you in pure panic. That was the most scared that I have ever been in my life and it was all in my mind. I would have been perfectly safe to have stopped, built a fire, and spent the night camping. Dont let your fears snowball and consume you. Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7). Never allow circumstances to deceive you into believing that God has forgotten you.