Jewells of Thought

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?

It seems like this question was just asked! A risk means you are gambling with your decisions. Yet if you are a child of God you have the promise of Him being with you no matter your decisions. It is the fact of doubt that makes it seem risky. There will always be a reason to not do something whether it is right or wrong.

I have taken big risks knowing God was with me, but naively believing friends or family would also be backing me. Depending on which decision it was journalism or dialysis they both ended sadly. Lessons were learned though and dialysis taught me much more about finishing the circle when it came to seeing the front of the clinic to the inside of the clinic the way my Uncle saw it for 5 years. There was a personal aspect that still gives me peace even through the ulcer that took more than a half year to heal from.

The biggest risk is still the one I can’t explain. Having a connection with someone for as long as it has been from the early days of him being in Boston, to the United Kingdom for a week and then being in Los Angeles for the last few years where complications have set in sound like a story for a movie.

There are still times I wonder why me, Lord? Why couldn’t I have met someone right here. Then as I wander through the stories of the Old Testament Rebekeh was found for Isaac by journeying back to where Abraham’s family lived. Not necessarily a long distance relationship, but a union found by traveling a vast area for the right woman for Isaac. There are so many marriages that started in different ways and were considered risky, but became the stalwart examples of living out God’s will for a specially tethered union. Even the story Rahab and Salmon, Esther and King Xerxes.

Is this any riskier than dying on a cross?