We've come so far in life, and yet it feels like we are just beginning to understand. In another time, maybe I would have taken giant footsteps. In another time, maybe I did take giant footsteps. Now, though, striving more than ever to...to what? Get it right? Understand more deeply? Forgive more completely? Love more purely? My footsteps are much smaller, but more concentrated, moving more certainly, in tiny steps, in the right direction.
We speak of the early pioneers, moving ahead, sometimes shuffling with rags on their feet in the bitter cold, or slogging through sucking mud. They didn't KNOW exactly where and when their trail would end, but they KNEW they were going the right direction. With every single footstep, they bore witness to the Lord that they WOULD follow Him.
Alternately, and on a totally different level, in the movie "What About Bob", Bill Murray's character Bob was terrified of everything, until he was given the key of taking baby steps in every single tiny thing he wanted to do, and thus found victory in each endeavor, and eventually huge victory in his life.
For me, the combination gives me hope.
it gives me hope too. thanks for putting it into words.
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