gotta have faith

I just read an entry in my journal from December 2, 2011. In it, I wrote about a dream I had the previous night:

I was traveling up a river on my way to a waterfall. When I was at the top, I realized that my eyes were closed and I couldn’t see how high or dangerous the waterfall was. I inched closer and closer to the edge until I began to free fall with the water. I remember the exhilarating and scary feeling as I rapidly fell. Once I reached the bottom and the shore, I looked over my shoulder to finally take in the enormity of the waterfall. As I looked at it, I said aloud, “If I had seen how huge that was, I wouldn’t have leaped off of it.”

In my journal, I wrote that my dream felt like it was an analogy for faith. I wrote, “With faith in God, I can trust the perfect plan that He has for my life. Perhaps it’s my faith that I must increase because if God showed me what He wanted me to do, I’d probably be too scared to actually do it – kind of like the waterfall.”

Well, God has recently told me to take a leap of faith. I have no idea how I’ll come out on the other side, but I wouldn’t dare miss out on an exhilarating journey with Him! Like I said to God in the final sentence of that journal entry,

“You’re going to take me to unimaginable heights, and I’m so grateful that you chose me. I love you."