Leap of Faith

I had a friend send me a quote yesterday... It was profound and one I have experienced in my own life on many occasions...

I want to share it with you today:

“The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

Twenty-five plus years ago, I was in a very scary position. I was recently divorced with no viable way to support myself and children. I decided to return to school (I had gone through the equivalent of four years of college many years before, but had nothing more than a secretarial certificate).

I always wanted to be a writer but didn't have the vehicle to get there. I had finished my associate degree but had to move to another city to finish my bachelor's degree in journalism.

Two weeks before I moved, I had a job lined up but still had no place to live in the college town.

Then I got the call... 

The newspaper that I was supposed to work for had folded... NO JOB!  PANIC set in and I didn't know what to do.  I prayed... a LOT.

A week before I was supposed to move, I had no place to live...

Then I got the call!  

Family housing at the university had opened up and I had a furnished two-bedroom apartment waiting for me!

Still no job.... 

I totally took that LEAP of FAITH and moved to the little college town in northern Arizona. As scary as it was, God was always there for me... I was able to get a work-study position, write some articles for the local Chamber of Commerce, work in a thrift store, house sit, even cook for a very prominent family for a short while.

Had I not taken that Leap of Faith, I wouldn't have my degree in journalism today and I wouldn't be the same person... I would never have met my future husband, and I and my children wouldn't have learned the valuable lessons in frugality that we did. To this day, my two girls (now grown) are the most amazing shoppers on the planet!

Each day is a step of faith... we have to make that LEAP into our own future, our own reality.

Go make it a LEAP Day!!!

Susie