Life is filled with confrontations and challenges. Young David of the Bible, while tending the sheep, faced a bear, and won. History is filled with stories of people who came face-to-face with bears, the difficulties and struggles of life. People face a wide range of bears. Some are dangerous or have large impact, others are on a more modest scale or more subtle in nature, but still people stood before a bear ready to kill, to steal or to destroy. They faced their bear. The stories of this book are to encourage and prepare for times when we face the bear.