"Father, I was so sure
You'd designated the way
I must take to go forward—
and now there's a terrible snake blocking my path.
Please show me some other way."
But the response (horrifying to me) came insistently:
Go forward, reach out and take it by the tail.
Then suddenly it dawned on me
that when He gave
what to fear-stricken thought
seemed an impossible command,
He'd also given me the courage to obey;
and reaching out beyond human helplessness,
I put all my desperate trust in Him
and took one forward step.
Immediately I felt the power of God's love
control my outstretched hand.
Wonderingly I found I'd grasped
not a snake's tail
but a newborn consciousness of dominion—
Love's infinite dominion expressed in me.
I glimpsed the way forward:
an unfolding sequence of divine possibility.
