The Crossing
Safety in the face of precarity.
I set out across the field to market. A stream stands between. A line of rocks is my bridge across.
Carrying a basket of wares, precarious, first a step to test the first stone. Then another step, but this one a leap: one foot leaves the bank and I balance. The rock shifts. Step, step, safety.
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There are times I must leave something behind, and stand on unsteady ground to make my way forward.
Let me trust the ground beneath me, Lord, even as sometimes it shifts underfoot.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I be more trusting of the ground under me?
Reading:
“Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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“A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. . . . You must act as you breathe.” — Georges Clemenceau
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“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” — 2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV
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