Meditation reading for Friday May 26, 2023
COURAGE —
We have to take certain risks if we hope to achieve anything. Applying for a job entails a risk of rejection. Saving money carries a risk of losing it. Falling in love can result in heartbreak.
We have to take such risks because life is ordered that way. We are here to learn, and learning includes pressing into unknown situations where we could fail. God could have created us in such a way that we could either avoid risks or not be concerned about them. Animals, for example, live with risks but do not seem to worry about them.
We must accept risk as part of God's plan for us. We also are given tools for working with uncertainties. We have our innate intelligence and a capacity for prudent, reasoned action. We have friends who will help us. Above all, we have our Higher Power, who guides and directs us through all sorts of risky conditions.
I cannot face life without also facing uncertainties. Today I'll accept some risks as a part of ordinary living.