The Leap of Faith

Alone in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, he set out to cross the Atlantic from New York to Paris. 33 hours of wind, silence and sea stretched ahead. He flew without a radio, without a co-pilot and without a parachute. To make room for enough fuel, Lindbergh had to strip the plane of nearly everything, including his parachutes. To many, it seemed reckless, but Lindbergh understood that to go further than anyone has gone, you must carry only what matters most. Success often requires letting go of things we've been taught are critical, security, certainty, the safe option. Success requires risk. Progress demands faith, where we must choose between the comfort of certainty and the possibility of something greater. It's not the absence of fear that defines the bold. It's the quiet decision to fly anyway. Risk isn't the opposite of success. It's the price of it. Lindbergh's flight reminds us that sometimes to move forward, we have to believe in our own vision and be willing to fly without a parachute. This is Dr. Scott Morris for Church Health.