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30 Seconds To Live

What if you only had 30 seconds to live?

What would you do?

What insane amount of courage would you have for those last 30 seconds of your life?

 

30 seconds.

Just 30 seconds.

If you are afraid to do something, or anxiety is ready to run wild with your mind and body—take a big, deep breath and leap for 30 seconds.

 

Specifically with my first team on my World Race, this was a motto that I preached a lot.

You only need 30 seconds of courage to do something great.

Or at the very least, to just plain do something.

 


“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.” -Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo


 

I was a person that was riddled with anxiety my entire life—to the point where I would start shaking when I even needed to make a phone call to order pizza.

I knew about how the Bible calls us to not be afraid, but I didn’t know how to apply that to my life.

You see, I was the kid who was always looking at the bigger picture—I knew where I was, and I knew where I wanted to go, but I could never get myself to take the steps to get there. I could never see past the large void that was the journey from point A to point B for me.

But then I began to ask myself, what if my point B was really my point Z?

What if my point B was 30 seconds from now; my point C was 30 seconds after that; and so on and so on?

What if the only thing standing in my way was my own mind telling me that I couldn’t do what I knew I was called to do?

So I began to live my life under that thought process.

I would have little destinations along the way to the larger destination and suddenly I was less afraid.

I stopped looking at the overwhelming larger picture and started focusing upon what was right in front of me—my next 30 seconds. And I began to live my life going from 30 seconds to 30 seconds.

This is still a lesson that I am learning, and by no means have I perfected it yet, but I do know that the Lord has called me to not be afraid and to be strong and courageous.

So with that I am continuing to live my life 30 seconds at a time.

Because, what if, those were my last 30 seconds to live?

 


“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:9


 

With much love and prayers,

Bethany

 

bethanygrayczyk.theworldrace.org

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