Piloting Faith: Your capacity to dream has everything to do with this...

A Word for the Day...

When people hear that I am a pilot, they make the assumption that I enjoy taking risks. I am not risk-averse, but I am not crazy either. In fact, flying has made me take fewer risks because in an airplane there is more at stake.

Flying has taught me endless lessons, but perhaps the most important is one about scale and vision. Your capacity to dream has everything to do with your courage to expand your vision.

The world looks different when you see it from the ground, or 3,000 ft, 14,000 ft or 32,000 ft. Your perspective changes. The conditions change. The kind of aircraft you need to safely traverse the airspace changes. Your sense of your own skills changes. The way you see yourself in the world changes. With each new altitude, you learn something essential about yourself and about the world.

Real adventure is seeking new altitudes, seeing the world from different perspectives. The wider your view, the less risky new adventures feel to you. The hardest part, the step that requires the most courage, is simply getting into the plane in the first place.

- Rev. Cameron Trimble, author of Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight

Blessing for the Week

May the God who dwells with those called outspoken, traitors, and subversive dwell also with you, writing peace across your soul. Go with God, speaking hope, singing memory, and dancing justice in your land.

- Jan Richardson, Sacred Journeys: A Woman's Book of Daily Prayer