Before I started reading the Risk A Day Blogs, I never really thought about the choices and decisions I was making within the concept of “risk”. I guess if I thought at all about those choices and decisions, I thought of them as getting something done, a means to get from point A to point B, but as a risk? Risk never [...]
The Risk of Choosing My Religion
The Risk of Choosing My Religion Have you ever been afraid to look too closely at something because you may no longer be able to accept it despite its flaws? When it comes to religion, I never made a conscious choice. Instead, I inherited it. My parents are and always have been active members of [...]
As Is
Last night I had a gentle aha moment… usually they slam into me and I am juiced and invigorated by the energy of them, but this was different. It kind of slid in like mud under a closed door. I was feeling resistant to it and defeated by it – it felt like an impossibility [...]
Risk Making Today a Reason to Celebrate
When we moved to Houston in 1973, we moved away from our parents, aunts and uncles, cousins back in Georgia and Alabama. Just the four of us were there together – Jim and Laura and John and me. Christmas had always been a big day in our family but it was a frustrating day, too, [...]
The Power of Admitting Your Dreams
Less than six weeks ago, a good friend and I had a conversation about one of her deepest aspirations. She’s been on the staff at her church for many years, but she confessed to me for the first time that she’s listening for a call from God to be an ordained minister. I understood this [...]
