To the ones with the bruises, the crushed egos, the one’s who have been told they can’t, to the lucky ones, the ones who have it going for them, to the dreamers and wide-eyed believers, to the soulful heart open and hopeful. Don’t wait. Don’t wait for that “perfect moment.” For if you wait until either you, that person, or that situation is good and ready you will be waiting for the rest of your life. The reason that I say this is because the most dangerous risk of all is the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. Now I am not saying don’t think about it, don’t seek the Lord out. But, what I am saying is take a leap of faith. If God gives you an opportunity take it with all you got, for He is telling you to believe, trust and have faith in Him! God knows that you question your courage, to which you should tell yourself “take courage dear heart” (C.S. Lewis) for even though you may stumble and it is hard to keep moving forward in those times I wish we could all see what we are becoming.
Don’t lock yourself in the walls you build or to keep others out, you have a beautiful soul that is meant for so many others to see; you are passionate, driven, and give hope to so many even when 
you may not see it. Here is my question if the doors were opened to you, would you stay locked in your solitary confinement, or would you run wild and free? For you are a lion full of power and an eagle full of beauty. So if you run, don’t run from fear or your own reflection, or run your mouth, don’t run your life like a tyrant even if that’s the environment you grew up in. Don’t you want to run, and not live like a lion trapped in a cage? Don’t you want to be daring and different? To be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers? Because “extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe its a sign that you’ve got an extraordinary destiny, something greater than you could have imagined” (C.S. Lewis) and you know what, you are extraordinary!
You are made to dream, to have desires and to want more out of life, so go after it! So when you are restless jump into a car and just drive somewhere that takes your breath away where its quiet and beautiful. Where you can be clear minded and then all of a sudden everything is okay. I bet you that more than a thousand dreams softly burn inside of you, it just takes a leap of faith to set one of those into flame! Everything that you do is purposeful, all that you do has a ripple effect, every word you speak, every action that you make affects you and others. The Lord has great plans for you, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
Are you willing to out on a limb for God, especially if that is where He is leading you? It is actually the safest place to be. Your desire to live a risk-free life is a form of unbelief. You’re longing to live close to Papa is at odds with your attempts to minimize risk. Let Him lead you step by step. If you keep your primary focus on Him then you will be able to walk along perilous paths without being afraid. You will eventually learn to relax and enjoy the adventure of the journey He has you on. His sovereign Presence protects you wherever you go as long as you stay close to Him.
“Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.” -Psalm 9:10
“Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” -John 12:26
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” -Psalm 23:4
For even if you speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but do not love, you are nothing 
but like the sound of a creaking of a rusty gate. If you speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if you have faith that says to a mountain, “jump,” and it jumps, but you do not love, you’re nothing. If you give everything you own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but you do not love, you have gotten nowhere. So no matter what you say, what you believe, and what you do, you are bankrupt without love (in reference to 1 Corinthians 13:1-7). I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you are proud of, and if not I hope you have the courage to start again. But most importantly out of life I hope you love. Love the highs, the lows, the in-betweens, because if you do all these things and yet do not love you will have gained nothing.
