Maybe
Posted by ARiftSoul on September 18, 2009, 12:28 pm, in reply to "Soon to be nothing...re: Precipice"
that is the PROBLEM!!!
We all think that we are JUMPING - TO FALL!
When just maybe we should be thinking of the leap of faith - to jump to a BETTER PLACE - A HIGHER PLACE -
Like jumping from Stone to Stone over a river bed. Fall in the water and you feel you have failed, but dip the toe, or drag a foot, but still maintain your balance somehow (your sanity).
But sometimes you find yourself a little upstream from where you were - you have the courage - but your foot is most definitely wet. Now what do you do. Wait for the foot to be dry? You now know you are at greater risk of slipping off the next stone as you land, that next step to get you closer to the other side - to get you to higher ground.
I slipped today. And now I stand on a my stone with a river of tears to add to the current that is before me...how many stones must we drum the courage to jump to before the torrent below us is finally over. And we can sit on the bank looking back at the fear of it all.
Ironically:
The river is but one foot deep with a current that cools the ankles on a hot day, but may give you a stink of icy cold reality on a beautiful fall day. But when the reality from the stink fills you with such joy and peace - how can you not possibly take that leap of faith to get to the other side.....
I search in desperation to find a rock close enough for me to jump to. That brings me closer to her and yet further from him. I ask how wide is this river I must cross. How long must I wait for a stone to roll within reach. That will give me sturdy footing to leap to the shore of happiness.
--Previous Message--
: You wrote:
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: I know I can't be pushed. I have to do it
: myself, I have to jump. But seriously, how
: do you? How do you step from firm ground
: into mid-air ?
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: I will tell you what many wise AJers told me
: when I posed that very same question almost
: a year ago.
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: You will jump when you are tired of sitting
: on the precipice. When the 'neither here nor
: there' gets the best of you. When the
: waiting gets old. When you are tired of
: being 'stuck'.
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: It's okay to jump. Really, it is. You will
: survive the fall and the landing and so will
: those around you.
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