I came across this poem,
and it reminded me of how risky God’s call of faith must have sounded to the
Christians in the book Hebrews:
To laugh is
to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is
to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out
to another is to risk involvement.
To expose
feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place
your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is
to risk not being loved in return.
To live is
to risk dying.
The hope is
to risk despair.
To try is to
risk failure.
But risks
must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person
who risks nothing does nothing,
but
has nothing and is nothing.
He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or live
Chained by
his certitudes, he is a slave; he has
forfeited
his freedom.
Only a
person who risks is free.
––Author
unknown
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