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Over the Edge of the Wild

I tend to be a dreamer. I can easily get bored and often find myself daydreaming about new ideas and new places to go. For me, there has never been a shortage of ideas or vision for what could be next. But unless we are content to just dream, there will be those moments of crisis; moments when we have to decide to not just dream but to take some steps of action. There are times when we have to risk and be willing to move into the unknown,

I was watching “The Hobbit: A Unexpected Journey” last night. There is this great moment after Bilbo Baggins finally decides to leave the safe and predictable, and enter this great adventure. A moment when he hears, “There are no safe paths in this part of the world. You are over the edge of the wild now…”  The decision for him to go on this journey was a struggle, but once he took the step, made the commitment, signed the contract, it got exciting. For awhile. Like Bilbo Baggins, I have found there is another moment of crisis, a point of no turning back. This is when things really get interesting. These are the gut-check moments when our faith can really be tested.

I remember reading Oswald Chambers’ words, “If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.”  I have thought about that a lot. I don’t think Chambers was talking about being blindly reckless or careless. I do believe he was referring to one of those moments, one of those times when there is no more research we can do, no more information to gather, maybe even no more prayers that will bring additional insight. It is just time to move and take the step that will cause us  to go “over the edge of the wild.”

DaleJuly 25, 2013 - 2:21 pm

And sometimes when we take that step others take that step with forming a fellowship sharing in the unfolding story/adventure. The growing depth of connectedness (as Bilbo with the dwarfs) makes for one of the richest dimensions of the story/adventure!

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