a Leap of Faith

I gave my Destination Imagination team a rather difficult "instant challenge." They weren't quite sure how to go about solving it. One person grabbed the materials and just started playing with them.
"Do you have a plan?" asked another.
"No," she said, but as she worked the plan started to develop. Slowly the other kids began discussing how they could make the plan work. In the end, it wasn't necessarily the most amazing solution on earth, but it was A solution, and much better than nothing.

It made me think about how sometimes one must make a leap of faith, take action even when one is not quite sure where one will land. If the alternative is stagnation, nothingness, failure...that leap may be by far the best choice.

I slept poorly. One dream I remember was I suddenly had a newborn baby. I had no diapers for the baby, forgot to feed her and found her trying to eat oreo cookies. I snatched the cookies away knowing they were not what she needed. I had no carseat, no bottles, and no clothes for her. I had no clue of how to care for the baby and just felt a heavy weight of responsibility for a task I had no idea how to accomplish, with such a precious life depending on me.

I flicked on my phone and went to my Bible app, when I awoke from the troubling dream. Psalm 3 popped into view. I read the Psalm, had strange semi-conscious sensations and visions of being carried on waves, and then fell blissfully asleep. Honestly, without a leap of faith, I wonder how anyone makes it through life.

Psalm 3:1-5 (NIV)
Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! [2] Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him. ” [3] But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. [4] I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain. [5] I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.




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