Sometimes, when I teach, I wear a special shirt with a sailboat on it. It's not the typical insignia you'd expect to see in an architecture design studio. But my students know why I wear it. It means, "We're going sailing."
The purpose of ships is to journey. To venture out onto the big seas despite the elements—the storms and squalls, rocks and riptides, darkness and fog—that might stand in the way of safe passage to faraway desirable destinations. Sure, leaving the safety and familiarity of the harbor may be scary. But one way or another, you have to leave one place before you can arrive at the next.
Spiritual journeys—even everyday projects at work—have to move forward in the same sort of way. Prayer-based strength, courage, and action—that's what it takes to answer the spiritual call deep in the human heart for newness, creativity, freedom, transformation, and understanding.
