Contemplating Risk Taking
“Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.” ― Stasi Eldredge , Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You Four years ago, I founded a company with my long time best friend. At the time, it wasn't particularly a goal of mine to start my own company. I have always understood the benefits of business ownership, at least in the academic sense. Still, I don't score high on the "risk taker" scale, and I would have been perfectly happy to stay in the job I had for the remainder of my working life. As fate would have it, the company where I worked was sold, and my position eliminated. I ...