Five Minute Friday: Brave

Sometimes I join in on Five Minute Fridays. The Gypsy Mama picks a word and we write for five minutes flat about whatever comes to mind. We don't edit, and we don't worry about what it sounds like. Today's word is brave.


I am small, and I speak when I'm spoken to...


brave. heart, what comes to mind? 
Walking in the storm, with the full knowledge that God is my protector.
Knowing that being brave doesn't mean you have no fear, but doing it anyway.


Lucy Pevensie. 
I want to be like Lucy, brave.
valiant. 


Brave for me probably looks like normal to lots of people.
like today, talking with a friend, she was trying to figure out my myers briggs. 
I'm ENFJ, I said. It fits me to a tee, but I'm really spiritually messed up so people don't see that. but that's me, on the inside.
brave to show it.
brave to be infectiously bubbly when they already expect me to be reserved. 


to let myself just be.
to let others just be.
to embrace the bubbly.
I made a list today. 50 things I want to do. things like smell the flowers, ask questions, eat fruit. but for me, brave.
to spin 
to dance in church
to laugh.


I say Your name, just Your name and I'm ready to jump
even ready to fall...



(lyrics from Brave by Nichole Nordeman)