Leap of Faith – IDIOMS for IDIOTS? The PETER experience

Why do they call this the leap of faith? Scripturally, it could be from Peter Leaping out of the boat to join his Master, our Lord Jesus!

Wikipedia defines this is ” the act of believing in or accepting something not on the basis of reason”.

When was the last we did this in our lives? Some may be doing this on the heels of a broken relationship. Or broken finances. Or broken businesses. Or even broken lives. The thing is – it is fear that mostly preventing people from engaging this on its tail.

Fear of the Unknown. Fear of being ridiculed. Fear of stepping out of the boat. Yes we hear stories of people who were worse than when they leapt out of the boat. Question is – is this the majority of minority? Could be both. If numbers were to be the basis, then maybe we look around our circle of friends who venture into the unknown.

Among my closest of friends, one (Mr. N) leapt out of his comfort zone and made Florida his residence. This came after an emotional separation from a 25 year marriage. So if we think about it, was this a good or bad move? Another went back home to establish (Mr P) set up their family business, did consulting and is slowing down now. Still another (Mr. R) went overseas to New Zealand after retiring at 63, does voluntary work for a church and now doing side hustle as consultant. And many more stories.

All of them did leapt of faith, with good measure for some, others as a result of their circumstance. We may say, life must go on. And it sure does. The thing now is, if we were to account for all these experiences in life, how many times have we leapt out of faith and what is our success rate, if ever we want to call it that way? Success being, you land on dry ground instead of sinking deeper from leaping out of the boat.

Behaviors

Today as we do our regular and routine chores at the weekend, Im reminded of my parents behaviors while growing up.

Mama is always working. When shes not teaching and checking papers for her students, her weekends are spent cooking for us, washing the cloths, bit of cleaning the house and little time left to resting.

Papa meanwhile, if not at the site doing engineering stuff, would play sports on weekends, in his younger days basketball, and eventually tennis.

Now fast forward 30 years down the road, I was reflecting and portions of these behaviors Have been passed down. Consciously or unconsciously, we mirror some of those behaviors we see our parents do.

Isnt it no wonder, when people do good or bad, we look back to how parents raise their kids. The question on nurture always comes first. Nature or the environment comes second.