Get Out Of The Boat

October 23rd, 2011

Get out of the boat.
Out here?
Yes. Get out of the boat.
Now?
Yes. Now. Get out of the boat.
It’s time. Just don’t look down. Get out of the boat and walk to the shore. You have great things waiting right at your fingertips that you can only embrace after you get out of the boat.
Get out of the boat.

Those words reverberated loudly in my head on my morning walk. Over and over. In reference to what, I don’t have a clue. Even as I sit here now and write this, “Get out of the boat” just hollers from the background.

Sometimes we have a thing we know we must do. We’ve known it for weeks, even months. We even knew we could go slow and take our time, but eventually the time is up and we know we must do it now. We also know we’re stuck – and can’t go further until we do it. The blessings are on the shore and we must trust and walk on the water to get to them. Get out of the boat.

And so, as another day goes by, it always comes down to trust, and …I have written.
And….as I came up over the dune, here is what I saw….