Irrational Fears...How Do YOU Deal?

Okay, I have a confession to make. I carry around this irrational fear and frankly I cannot stand it. And when I say I "carry this irrational fear around", I mean it almost dictates my every move in some areas of my life. I am secure enough to say it, I am a little crazy some times...( I think we all are or can be given the right surrcomstances) but this drives me bonkers!

So what is my fear......really I have a couple of irrational fears but the one that really troubles me/tickes me off is as follows:

I am afraid something terrible is going to happen to my Jacie (my 6 year old daughter) and when it does, she is going to die.

(I know this is one of those situations where it isn't appropreiate but you want to laugh anyway, go ahead I won't judge!)

Some may know where this little idea got planted into my head and really how it get there is not the point. The point is, even when it comes time to disapline Jacie for something she has clearly done wrong, I have a hard time. Literally the thought runs through my mind, if she dies, will I be upset I had to do this? This is ridiculous! Believe you me, I know it is. It is totally irrational. Jacie is a healthy little girl full of life & it is not like I am abusive to her, she is made or should be made to follow the rules just like the other million kids we have. Yet, I cannot stop this fear or the way it tries to run my life with Baby J. I just do not know how to stop fearing she will one day leave us.

(Believe me when I say The Man Up Stairs knows all too well about this fear I have about losing Jacie. I talk to Him about it all the time. Sometimes I feel like He is trying to tell me she will be fine because literally she has been one of the healthiest children I have after her trying to die twice in her first year of life that is. Giving it up to Him is the only way I can deal with it at all, that is how big it is to me.)

What other irrational fears do I have you say? Well, there is this glaring one......

I have this stupid irrational fear that I am going to be adult napped while out running.

So friggin ridiculous, I know. I think it may come from being a little more into watching crime shows than I should be, but again, that is not the point. I would let this silly fear stop me from running (which I find pretty theraputic) because I really did not want to be adult napped. The only way I got over this issue was to start running with my new dog Piper. She is a barker and freaks when anyone gets near us. So I would know if something were about to happen or if someone should get too close. I am not ashamed to say I would love to have a bigger dog that some found scary to run with....but Piper does the job. At least I figured out how to beat this one!  

Am I strange or do people have irrational fears from time to time? It is certainly possible that I am strange so I am open to that concept. If you have an irrational fear, what is it & how do you deal with it?

Just Another Day in Paradise......