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.

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.

“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

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” — 2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV


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