The Camper and the Spiders 🕷

What’s a fear you’ve overcome — and how did you do it?

This is my first ever blog… ¡ started it back in November of last year… one reason was to help make it easier for me when ¡ get ready to write my first ever book… about my life…

¡ know fear

It knows me

¡ve been at war with it since the 90s

And newsflash

¡m winning

¡ always knew ¡ would

¡ do not give up

And ¡ do not give in

There’s been many dim lit days… dark nights… where it appeared though it had me.

But fear’s power is one that is borrowed

Borrowed from me

So ¡ve learned not to fuel it

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All ¡ know… is what it did take to make this

All ¡ am… is what it will take… to break this

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On a lighter note

Let’s talk about something a little more relatable

Spiders.

Big effin’ huge ones.

So ¡ve always been scared of them in the past… like fearful…

And I’m an outdoorsman haha

¡m not scared of much

Like snakes for example

Even poisonous ones ¡ will catch and hold carefully…

They don’t bother me at all

But spiders had my number

Until the summer of 2o1O

That’s when ¡ finally dealt with it

¡ was living and working at a Christian men’s drug rehab in Florida

It was a long-term treatment program

The guys lived there for 18 months

¡ was the resident director and lived in the same house with them

Well… the pastor that ran it wanted me to have my own place separate from everyone

So he purchased a used fifth-wheel camper trailer and we set it up out back on the ten-acre property

Hold up…

Let me back up a lil

The property had a lot of spiders

Florida has a lot of spiders lol

We would find them in the men’s residence all the time

Come to find out… they are called Huntsman spiders

And they are enormous and intimidating… most as big as your hand.

Ok… back to the story…

The camper had some type of hole somewhere underneath the frame

And shortly after ¡ moved in

So did all my long-legged, hairy little roommates

They would crawl on me while ¡ was sleeping

¡d wake up and they would be on… the ceiling… the walls… the floor… just all over

¡ went to put my bedroom shoes on once…

And a big one was in there

¡ could feel it on my bare toes

It was frantically moving around trying to get out haha

So like lightning… ¡ pulled my foot out and out it came… then it ran up my leg

These types of things happened often with my new friends

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¡ didn’t think ¡ could stay

Live here like this

In this place… with them. 😬

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We searched and searched trying to find how they were getting in

But we never found it

As the days passed

¡ had more encounters

Daily…

Nightly…

Then it occurred to me

¡ had never once been bitten by one

So ¡ did much praying

Asking God to help me get over this fear

And He did

Little by little

¡ got to where it didn’t bother me

¡ even stopped trying to kill them

¡ got to where ¡ could lay in bed at night and read

Even if one was resting on the wall beside me

Sometimes there might be three or four in plain sight in the room at the same time

And it didn’t faze me anymore

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¡ stayed in that camper for about a year

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Never once got bit

Not one time

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There was nothing to fear… ever.

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only something to face.

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This is a Huntsman Spider I was told… not a Wolf Spider as me and my friends are calling it in this video…

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. — 2 Timothy 1:7

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