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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Fearful (08/23/07)
She left the movie theatre trembling. Not from the advanced graphics that made the aliens look so real on the screen in front of her, nor from the intense dialogue created by Hollywood screenwriters. She was fearful of something else: The uncertainty of what tomorrow would hold. The movie provided a two-hour escape from her reality, but the problems could not be erased with such ease. Could she find a way to pay her rent this month? Would her phone service be cut off? Anxiety encroached upon her soul, just as it had before the movie.

The world can be frightening enough without the assistance of Hollywood. It seems so simple for God to say, “Do not be fearful,” when He does not have to pay various bills or worry over what the doctor will find. Why, therefore, does He command us not to be anxious or afraid? He does not guarantee us that this world will be free from trouble. In Matthew 6:34, Jesus asserts that each day has enough troubles of its own. And yet we are not to be fearful? No. In heaven, our present days of light affliction will seem like the two-hour movie. This is a brief season, and the promised weight of glory will not begin to compare to what we face in a broken world (2 Corinthians 4:17). The movie is seen, the bills are seen, the tumor is seen, and yet let us fix our eyes upon what is, for now, unseen. And when it is revealed, fear will have no place.
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Allison Egley 
08/31/07
This is good. I like the ideas presented here.

This felt a bit unfinished. I felt like you could have expanded on both parts quite a bit to draw the reader in.

Great job overall. Keep writing!
Josiah Kane
08/31/07
Well done. I would not like to be in such a situation. Indeed God does sometimes seem unwilling to help us not to be fearful in certain difficult situations, but when you look from a different perspective, the blessings always outnumber the problems.
Myrna Noyes
09/04/07
This is a short piece with a big message! In a few words you gave me a lot to think about! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! :)