Risks

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Risks

Much of our growth depends on our willingness to take risks. There is no growth without love, but offering love to others is sometimes a risk. How can you be sure the offering will be received? Deciding to take a new direction in life is sometimes a risk. How can you be sure it will succeed? At certain points of our lives, trusting God may seem like a risk. How can you be sure that he will come through for you? Trusting in people is certainly a risk. How can you be sure you will not be betrayed?

Those who are inordinately afraid of taking risks miss many of the joys of life. They are constrained by fear, and fearful constraint is sometimes a tragedy. The fear of risks keeps people from the discovery of life and the joys of love.

Part of the wisdom of life is to know when to take a risk and when to avoid it. Perhaps only a calm and prayerful mind can ever be that wise. Wisdom comes from God and we have to seek it in confident prayer. Wisdom can also come from our friends, and the insights of a wise friend about risks can be of great help to us.

Where there is no risk, there is no full life. Until we are raised through resurrection to a life beyond space and time, this is the way it will always be. Life is for the courageous, and only the courageous are able to discover the fullness that it offers.

Even you take risks, Lord. Didn't you take one when you made me? Help me to find the middle road between rashness and timidity that I might live with wisdom and courage. Help me not to fear appropriate risks so that I might realize the full potentials of my life.

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