Big thinking requires big courage. I know this intellectually as a spiritual truth, but of course, my human self usually requires a big dose of experience before I really know something.
As soon as I left the studio after my final show on Monday, I mean the minute I got in my car and started to drive away, there came a cold twist in my ribcage and a voice in my head, saying, “Uh, hel-LO?! Anybody home? You just closed the door on a good, solid thing, with nothing solid in the queue to replace it?? What the hell are you thinking?”
BIG.
Big thinking is always a risk, because it requires big change…letting go of things outgrown or no longer true to your vision. Sometimes we have to let go in order to think big; and sometimes we have to begin thinking big in order to let go.
Dr. Ernest Wilson said, “We must be willing to let angels go, that archangels may come into our lives.”
Daily prayer and considerable contemplation over the last few months have led me very clearly to the good, solid realization that it is indeed time to take the risk to move on, to stretch myself, to afford God an opportunity to expand my world and how I express myself in it. I have a vision, I have more than enough passion, I have a considerable track record of every other time I’ve leaped and God has carried me somewhere amazing. I don’t know how He’s going to pull this one off yet, but I know enough to keep praying in order to let Him. Amazing how much we can know, and still question the wisdom of letting angels go.
Good thing archangels are bigger.
Big thinking is a big risk, and requires big courage. Big courage requires big faith. And big faith? It is built… one risk, one leap, one prayer at a time.
I let go what goes. God has greater and better good for me now! —Catherine Ponder
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Amen!
ReplyDeleteI will second that Amen :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for everything you have given me (
and I am still doing my homeworks)
and I am grateful I found you while your show was still active.
Sorry I missed trying to call in to those last shows, but praise God, I was finishing up the class work for grad school and getting closer to that degree and the certification for teaching.
I am still re-listening to your archives to drive some of these points home past the wall of my fears. No walls. No fear. God is bigger than that :)
Your thoughts and words are good food for my spirit and soul.
I look forward to hearing of your wondrous adventures as they unfold in your days.
love and many blessings to you and yours, and all of us
Ariel