The Next Right Step

Recently, I have found myself re-reading parts of Regina Brett’s God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours. I read it in college, and in many ways, it changed my life…at least at that point. The past few days I’ve had a few random things thrown at me that have left me unsettled. In my eyes, they are worries that I don’t need to carry. To be honest, I feel like I have tried to do what is right. I’m a responsible person that others can count on, and for some reason it’s all kind of being thrown back in my face. It’s hard, and I’ve been getting pretty down on myself. Then I read Regina Brett’s Lesson 2: When in doubt, do the next right step. Just like the headlights on a car, we can only see so far. We do the next right step in order to continue on our journey. We don’t know what is beyond the headlights, but we trust our journey will turn out as planned. 

“It’s scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That’s what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.” 

I don’t know why things have been going the way they have. I’m sure there is some underlying lesson I will learn from all of this, but until that is clear to me, I need to remember to make the next right step.