At some point on the
journey you reach what feels like the edge of a cliff. These are what
my husband describes as Indiana Jones moments. At these moments there
is nothing you can do but jump. You have to step out, take a leap of
faith and trust that what has been leading you so far has been true.
That in stepping out, you will land somewhere and that place will be
good.
I am most certainly in
the midst of my own Indiana Jones moment. I have no idea, really,
what it means to be ordained or to be a leader in the Church. Looking
out over the road that is appearing before me is terrifying in the
extreme. I have more fears about it that I can number from putting on
a clerical collar to standing up in front of a congregation, to every
little expectation people will have of me in this new role that I
feel hopelessly unable to meet. Right now it really does feel like
stepping out off the edge of a cliff and just trusting that my foot
is going to find solid ground.
What is helping me a little is to look back at the journey I have taken. To think about the road I have taken to get here which has been by no means straight forwards but altogether wonderful all the same. I'm remembering all the leaps I made before and all the good places I have landed. I'm remembering my first tentative steps along the journey when I felt to ridiculous to even say what was brewing inside of me out loud.
I'm remembering some of
the hard times I've come through in the last few years, knowing that
I am still standing. I've been remembering how wonderful it feels to
jump, that sense of joy when you are doing the thing you never
thought you could, when you have arrived in places you never imagined
nor thought you would see. And best of all the feeling of reaching a
new phase of the journey and realising just how far you have come.
When I think of that I feel that faith bubble up again, I know that
on the other side something good is waiting for me.
And at the end of the day I suppose the nature of the journey is just to keep on it and none of us really know where things are heading, do we? So it's one foot in front of the other and in a couple of weeks one big giant leap into the unknown with all the courage, faith and trust I can muster that I will, once again, find a safe and solid landing.
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