The Giant Leap
by How to make that tough decision to change your life. Just a couple of ways and the results that follow.
There comes a day in everyone’s life when we are faced with a choice. Do I continue doing what I have been doing and pray for different results, or do I take a giant leap of faith and step out of the boat? What must I do to change the circumstances that have brought me to this place? There are two solid underlining paths from which to choose from.
First, we can merely jump, letting God catch our fall through his love, and through the people he has placed in our lives. It is never easy and it always hurts. But at the end of the day you have to ask yourself one simple question… Which hurts worse; the giant leap that hurts for months, maybe even years; OR living with the one thing that has drove you to read this? How many sleepless nights does it take to add up to the pain caused from that difficult decision of taking the leap? How much time is required to pay for our mistakes of getting in such a mess to begin with? The truth be told, every day we fail to act is another day we are hurting and paying for something that ultimately comes around again. By that I mean, the longer you hold onto the areas of your life that are hurting you and holding you back, the more you pay. Because at the end of the road, should you choose to take that leap, you aren’t just paying for the leap anymore; it isn’t the simple months of pain it took to move on but it also happens to be those months plus the months or years you spent deciding on something you already knew was wrong. All in all, constantly putting off the inevitable, should you choose to call it that, is essentially paying the cost of pain twice. Paying it with the sleepless nights that lead up to the final straw as well as paying the cost to leap. The best advice I could give for someone looking to make that leap is very simple; pay the price once and jump. Know that all of your family and friends, those you fight with, those you hurt, those that found ways to love you anyways, know that they will be the ones to pick you up off the floor when you finally land.
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Post Commentallomighty
On June 20, 2009 at 2:31 pm
To wrap up any further question I wanted to make one final thing clear. At the end of the day it comes down to one option regardless of the path you choose to follow. When it is all said and done you still have to jump. Tiny steps of faith don\’t change the fact that any action toward drastic change requires a solid motion. Tiny steps only make the big leap seem easier because they serve to produce greater faith, but for that faith you suffer with anxiety and lack of sleep. So consider that stress and anxiety a form of payment for the small steps of faith. At the end of the day I still recommend you simply jump for and sort out the details later. Think of change as more of an ice sculpture then a snowman. A snowman melts slowly until one day it is gone. Often times we don\’t even notice the change in size if the snowman melts slow enough. This would resemble growth but not change. The ice sculpture would represent the change we are after. We can slowly chip away at the legs. With every new piece chipped away we gain greater confidence that the sculpture will fall. But as we are chipping we get to that final support and rather than a slow fade away, the ice sculpture takes a swift stumbling down. The chipping represents the tiny steps but at the end of the day; the sculpture still comes crashing down in one giant leap. So if your strong enough, if you’re brave enough, if you’re ready; save yourself all the added agony and take one giant leap trusting that God will fulfill his promise and never forsake you. And in the end, you will land on solid ground.
AshleyAnne
On June 21, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I believe in you too.