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encourage, faith, indiana jones, Inspire, leap of faith, trust, unknown
I think of the above clip often when I am at a place in life where I have no idea how to proceed yet I know I need to move forward without truly understanding the how, when or whys. It’s weird how there are some childhood movies that just stick with you and this has always been one that I visually recall at the oddest times.
I find myself at that place once again. Nothing makes sense and yet I am being asked to trust, blindly. Continue to move forward. And believe that the pieces are in place as they should be and will work for my good.
It’s not really working for me. It’s like my brain requires instructions ahead of time, so I can process them and then decide if I like them. So sticking my foot in the air when I am at the end of my rope and hoping to God that there will be something solid to stand on as I move forward is unnatural to say the least, however, it is happening and so just call me Indiana Jones because I am going forward.
Maybe someone out there reading this is in the same situation. You are kind of just out there not sure what led you to this point or what waits ahead but all you know is that you must take a step forward. You have found yourself at the end of a cliff with an impossible ravine before you and no clear path across to the other side. All I can say is that you are not alone. And if you’ve put your trust in the right place, the path will appear. I believe sometimes God has to break us of our reliance on ourselves. And that particular lesson is scary. Yet, it’s obvious why it needs to happen. More often than not its us who leads ourselves into a dead-end. At times we need to learn to follow.
This is a post that has no answers, I have nothing neat to wrap this thought up with. Except to say, I am on an adventure that has taken me far from home, it has not been comfortable, I am utterly confused and I have no way to trust in myself now because everything is out of my hands. Yet, it’s necessary and I know that God is with me. It’s my own personal leap of faith.
Whether you are in this exact spot now, just come out of it or are heading into it…. just know that at some point you will be here. And the story is not that you are here, it’s where you allow it to take you, and what you allow it to do inside you. The “unknown” is only a tragedy when we are too afraid to face it.
