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Anxious Surrender

Anxious Surrender Imagine what a young, pregnant woman might be thinking as she rode on a donkey into town that day? Every woman I know has experienced some level of anxiety. Consider being 12-14 years old, and suddenly you are carrying the Savior of the World? God’s son. Your only qualification is that you lived a…