Will You Make the Leap?

"Leap and the Net Will Appear" Julie Cameron

Have you answered Scott Walker's question that was posed to you last week...."What will you do with your precious life?" It is precious, you know...Are you taking action, and pursuing your passion?  Do you feel you are making progress?

If you're like me, then you love hearing real life stories of 'the law of attraction' and how when a person steps out and lets his needs be known to the world, then God and the universe open up and gives you what you ask for. Like when  the Pastor Scott Walker, took a leap of faith, without a clear business or financial plan, and resigned from the ministry in order to pursue his passion. The very next morning he was contacted by a friend, willing to help meet his financial needs, enabling Walker to pursue his dream. 

And although stories like that might inspire us, and motivate us....do you feel that those kind of miraculous events only happen to others...and not to you? And if it doesn't happen to us....is there something we can surmise from that? Perhaps, it's because we're not willing to take that leap?

I think the thing that stayed with me the most after reading about his story was the fact that Walker  resigned his position first, before he came up with a plan...That is truly a leap of faith isn't it?  'Get rid of the old, to make room for the new'.  That's what the authors of The Passion Test tell us we need to do...get rid of the old.....but's that's scarey!  What if I get rid of the old and then there is no better 'new' in its place?  What if I give up my old job in search of a new one and there is no new job? What if I retire, to make more time for my passion and I don't like retirement? What if I use my financial assets to pour into my passion and the plan falls flat on its face. And mom's old adage 'the grass is always greener on the other side", disguised in wisdom and practicality, echoes inside our closed doors, the doors we don't dare to throw open....after all Mom reminds us, "you never know what lies on the other side of that fence?"

Too risky you say? So, we instead choose security, over opportunity, over possibilty, over our passion...because it's a leap we're not willing to make...right? After all, my life isn't all that bad...just talk to others and you see we're doing alright for ourselves.   I should just be happy with what I've been given...don't act like a spoiled child always wanting more...asking for the moon....

Oh spoilers that we are... growing tiresome of reading about passions and ideal lifes and dreams coming true ... it only raises our hope for a bit, and then that need for security hangs heavy and lingers...

Perhaps that's what divides us ...our need for security... So instead we have chosen to settle, while those dream catchers are willing to take the leap, in search of greener grasses, risking the danger of meeting the charging mad bull on the other side.

So here is the question I'd like you to consider this week.  Am you willing to take your precious life and make the leap?
 
Read about a couple who did just that:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/07/21/4179892/seeking-a-change-lincoln-county.html