Just Go
I started today's post by just beginning.
By just opening a new page and putting down that first sentence.
Each week, I like to post a blog.
Not that I have anything special to say.
I simply enjoy the practice.
This practice of writing on a schedule.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes ugly.
Week after week, I post.
Often I have ideas that have have been swirling a while.
Sometimes I find an idea by rereading my daily journals.
This morning, I sat at the computer with nothing.
I opened this document with nothing.
I knew I had nothing, but that didn't stop me.
I just put down that first line.
I just started by beginning.
In his book, Courage is Calling, Ryan Holiday tells a story about Charles Lindbergh. According to Holiday, several problems preceded his flight across the Atlantic. Lindbergh was fearful, but climbed into his seat, put on his goggles, and started the engine. Then he taxied, accelerated, and lifted off toward destiny. How did he push through the obstacles and the fears? How did he do it? Ryan says, "You just do it. You leap into the dark. It's the only way. Because if you don't, what looms? Failure. Regret. Shame. A lost opportunity. Any hope of moving forward." (p.109).
And my posting this blog is the exactly like Charles Lindbergh taking flight in his single-engine, single seat monoplane over the Atlantic Ocean.
Future generations will speak of this day when Thom Miller posted this heroic blog.
He fought through the fear and uncertainty.
He leapt into the darkness.
He braved the computer screen before him just as Lindbergh braved the ocean in his windshield.
He typed, clicked the "publish" button, and found his destiny on the other side.
Or maybe, this morning, I was just reminded that sometimes, we just need to start.
To begin. To move forward. To take flight. To click some keys. To just go.
And as I reach the end of this momentous accomplishment of posting a weekly blog, I am grateful.
I am grateful that I started. By just beginning.
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