Storm and Still Times

Well I hope you all had a great weekend and Mother’s Day.  Monday is here and the start of a new work week.  It has been a interesting two weeks from scary, to crazy, to interesting.  Making major decisions in life never seems to come easy ya know? I pray for a clear thought process, but sometimes I feel like I am stuck in the mud like a stick.  The interesting things from life I guess are those things that you never thought might materialize.

As many of you know I make custom knives.  What had started from just the joy of handcrafting and forge steel to reproduce a usable tool, has surmounted into something much more.  I have had many people in the last few weeks ask me to build them custom knives more than ever before.  Things that didn’t seem to be a reality, can materialize if they are mean’t to be.

Rough sea’s can turn calm and the eye of the horizon can change views so many different ways.  Risk is so scary and yet at the same time fulfilling to take that step into the unknown.  That is where I am kind of at right now.

How many of you are in a similar situation or thought process in your life? Faith seems like such a gamble, and losing control is human nature that none of use never like to feel.  For it is in that control, that grip, that seems to give us some grasp of our own destiny.

I think its the letting go, and giving it to upstairs, can even  paralyze the most mighty of human nature.  That is the real task that seems to even bring the most stubborn of individuals to their knees at times.  We were never mean’t to serve ourselves, but mean’t to serve each other it seems.  Its the unknown of the future that can be blatantly scary in the face of the abyss that life can represent.

So for those of you go through similar facets of life, let’s jump in it, together.  Scary as it may be, the challenge is ahead, and I’ll  try to use fear, as my fuel to jump into the fire.  For its better to try and fail, than not to have tried at all.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”  Winston Churchill