Climbing
Always toward freedom.
It is like I am hanging from a rock face. So many ways up, yet the exertion feels so large. I am tempted to give up. The fall always waits.
If I let go, and choose despair, I have traded the uncertainty of freedom for the certainty of failure.
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Let me keep climbing, Lord, glad of the handholds and ledges. There is rest even here, if I look carefully at what is before me.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I keep climbing, even when uncertain?
Reading:
“Something in me stretches to meet the mountain. The struggle itself is the path.”
— Nan Shepherd
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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“He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.”
— Psalm 112:7 (KJV)
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