caution versus boldness
I am tired of timid lethargy,
of an excess of considering
the “one hand” and the “other hand,”
fearing a movement forward might not be the best possible way,
a tool exists: a handy video camera,
a need exists: people age and move away,
yet with a story that can start to be told
before it easily can be lost,
but no committee seems to get around
to organizing a project to record and share the stories,
an easy slipping into procrastinating
till a future time that might be better,
maybe somebody, some time, will take care of it,
lethargy triumphs over the riskiness of boldness,
I thank God, literally, that those visionaries
who conceived the possibility of a Friends School
between Durham and Chapel Hill,
chose vision over caution,
to leap despite what the “look” revealed,
consensus is a wonderful tool,
too often, though, it tricks us into thinking
that a lack of a unity to move forward in a particular way
is unity to not move at all,
I recorded and shared the videos, and continue to do so,
I answer the calling, I lead and I hope others follow
as the way forward calls more clearly to them, too.
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