Just Take the Next Step Ahead
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.–Martin Luther King Jr.
No, a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next 3 feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. -CS Lewis
Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom
The night is dark, and I am far from home-
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene - one step is enough for me. –John Henry Newman, June 16, 1833
Don’t worry about what you will do next.
If you take one step with all the knowledge you have, there is usually just enough list shining to show you the next step.” –Mardy Murie – the grandmother of conservation who established protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Ms. Williams: I love that quote from Mardy Murie who so many of us regard as the grandmother of conservation who did such beautiful work in establishing protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And I think about that every day, you know, just enough light shining on the next step to show you the way… And so I think it’s about making commitments to do the real work, the hard work, because ultimately that’s where I have found the most joy.
-On Being; Episode: July 19, 2012, The Vitality of the Struggle with Terry Tempest Williams
The Grace Comes as You Step
Raymond: She told me when we started the process…I said, “Mother, I think I want to write a little memoir of our time together and put a biographical sketch together.”
She said, “Why would we do that?”
I said, “I think that’s all I’m capable of. I’ve never done a full-scale biography; I’m not sure I could do that.”
She said, “Look, if you feel God’s calling you, you start out, you take one step at a time.
The grace comes as you step. Being afraid is not a problem. Doing nothing when you’re afraid, that’s the problem.” -Youtube: Raymond Arroyo Live in Memoriam Mother Angelica; Episode: 3-28-2016
So I got busy on a very interesting project. This was to live all the good things I believed in. I did not confuse myself by trying to take them all at once, but rather if I was doing something that I knew I shouldn't be doing, I stopped doing it and I always make a quick relinquishment. That's the easy way. Tapering off is long and hard. And if I was not doing something that I knew I should be doing, I got busy on that. It took the living quite a while to catch up with the believing, but of course it can, and now if I believe something, I live it. Otherwise it would be perfectly meaningless.
As I lived according to the highest light I had, I discovered that other light was given; that I opened myself to receiving more light as I lived the light I had. – Peace Pilgrim
Do not try to find the way from A to Z. Just find the way from A to B. -Isaac Lidsky
