A gate is an invitation to the new, a suggestion that you walk through into the adventure that waits on the other side. But you know what? Just because a gate is there doesn’t mean it’s the right time to walk through. Sometimes it’s just as well to wait until the snow clears rather than forcing the issue.
What opportunity or potential are you choosing to leave alone for now?
Within hours of birth a baby horse is up and walking—even running—around. Often new ideas require massive amounts of tinkering and trials in order to work, but on occasion they arrive fully formed, ready to run out in the world.
What have you created that seemed miraculously complete, right from the start?
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
What small things to you do in a great way?
Fortunately, there are stretches of land that are preserved for wildlife, where roads and development and civilization are banned so that the plant and animal inhabitants have space to flourish. Perhaps it would be a good idea for each of us to have a wildlife preserve in our own lives, where instinct, intuition and a sense of our wild nature could flourish.
How do you make room for the “wild” in your life?
“He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.”
―Harry Emerson Fosdick
What made you choose the road you are walking at the moment?
