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If You Take the Step, the Path Appears
But only if you take the step
Faith is often talked about in a religious sense, but we take leaps of faith every day.
When you go to a fast food place, you trust that the food was prepared well. If you didn’t think it was, you wouldn’t eat it.
A team of people built your home, but if you didn’t trust them, you’d get rid of them and do it yourself.
You trust doctors, law enforcement, teachers, regulatory bodies, the list goes on and on. There’s an unspoken reliance on one another to do what we said we were going to do. And while we have examples of people cutting corners in various industries and sectors, if we all were to do this, we would all be in grave danger.
But when it comes to our own lives, we are guilty of cutting corners and taking liberties on ourselves too. Is it any wonder that we do this to strangers?
We skip that last rep in our workout routine, we eat that bit of cake that we really didn’t need, we tell ourselves something to make ourselves feel better and we put pressure on ourselves when our bodies and minds are slowing down due to fatigue.
We don’t necessarily do this to ourselves because we hate ourselves. Sometimes we do it because we seek pleasure. But it just so happens that when we…
