Fear & Bedtime
🔦 Scared of Shadows
Your imagination can paint scary pictures on ordinary things. A flashlight check plus a verse helps your eyes and your heart agree.
Light
“Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?”
Psalms 27:1 · World English Bible
Power
“For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”
2 Timothy 1:7 · World English Bible
With me
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
Psalms 23:4 · World English Bible
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Say it
Practice Psalms 27:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehismylightandmysalvation.shallIYahwehistheofmylife.OfwhomshallIbeafraid?
Pray together
Dear God, my eyes are telling me a scary story. Please be my light and help me see what is really here. Amen.
Two-minute challenge
With a grown-up, shine a flashlight in the closet and under the bed, then say, “God is my light.”
Parent tip
Do one calm check, then stop rechecking, so the ritual settles the fear instead of feeding it.