Don't Let Your Fear Interfere With Your Faith

It's hard to steal second base with your foot still on first! I live by that rule, but I continue
to keep not only my foot but my entire body and sometimes my mindset on first base.
There is all that security. That fear of getting called "out" should I make the mad dash that
would get me closer to home, closer to an added score on the board, closer to a Life Series Team Pennant.... the team of course is God and Me. So much like a Doubting Thomas, I wait.... and wait for another batter to approach the plate and hit the big one. Hit the one that will advance me at least to second.

But I know it is my responsibility to make a move. The last batter struck out. And the one before him. I've been standing here knowing that I can move. I can get to home with just a little faith. But there it is. That fear. That lack of discipline. That lack of confidence. Of course, as Marie Curie said "nothing in life is to be feared, only understood." And discipline says Jim Rohm, is the "bridge between goals and accomplishment." Nothing in life just happens, Gold Meir said, "You have to have the stamina to meet the obstacles and overcome them."

That is easier to buy into when you accept the fact that "obstacles are put in your way to see if you really wanted something or just thought you did." Another philosopher put it this way: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. And how many times have I heard it said and have I said it myself: Feed your Faith and your Doubts and Fears will starve to death.

So today it is with a renewed sense of reaching the goal, being more proactive, and exercising some discipline that I refuse to allow my fears to interfere with my faith. It is time to get my foot, my body, my complacent, doubting mindset past first base! What about you???