the risk must be taken

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd, is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But the risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom.
ONLY A PERSON WHO RISKS – IS FREE

via mark waddington

Comments

[matybigfro]

Man I'm gonna be meditating on that for ages
Tempted to get every one to just read before doing any worship next time in church.

What does riskey worship really look like?

Which remind's me i must ask my freind if I can read his dissatation on the coalition between extreme sports and extreme worship

[Kathryn]

Fantastic timing....I'm preaching tonight on taking risks with and for God, who risks all for us. Thanks so much, jonny :-)

[Richard Passmore]

your mates dissertation is worth a read and his work on "flow" is very good. I have used the risk poem in quite a lot of youthwork training as well, and it is in Meet them where they're at. The whole notion of risking relationships to move forward fasinates me at the moment, thanks for the reminder of the poem. What goes around comes around!

[kordobez]

great words!!! great blogspot!!!

from argentina
kordobez