“Collaborating With Uncertainty” [Series of Reflections on David du Chemin’s Book The Soul Of The Camera - pp. 202-211]
Just find a hover-point, he says
Twixt courage (facing fears instead
Of crawling back in bed), and place
Your fears find focus in this case.For there creative juices flow;
Uncertainty, of course, you know –
A past quite certain – accolades
Attest to ancient skill in spades.But as we change, world changes too;
The things which spooked, no longer do;
New challenge which we face each day
Bids us press on, cut trail’s new way.There’s comfort in the myth of past –
Our fears back then become “A blast”
Regaled in swap-meets, ’till the day
When challenge meets us, makes us pay.“Show up” as Woody Allen says;
Step into dance – cross-cultured ways
Demand from us more than we have –
Press on and use resource we have.Grow up into each challenge met –
There’s value where we fear, and yet
The fears we see are not the foe –
That’s unseen danger we don’t know.He notes more writers just show up
To work each day, give room for luck,
But more, just let each scene emerge;
Learn on the way, and fears submerge.Lord, as I contemplate this thought,
I think of scary paths I’ve walked –
Of times that fears have flecked to my talk,
Yet pushed on through, have thus been taught –That we need not be over-spooked;
That we can walk in hidden nooks,
And let each serendipity
Remind us we’ve yet to worlds to see.Thanks Lord for this.
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