Step 1 - Eat the frog!
I have a beautiful little Friendship Book,
given to me when we first moved to Prescott by a lovely neighbour who took one
of those meaningful first steps; Elizabeth and her husband, Michael came over
to welcome us to the neighbourhood.
Little did she realize that reading one excerpt from that little book
each day has become part of my morning ritual - It gives me a boost from sleep
to smile. I especially love its one
reference to an old piece of folk wisdom that states, "If the first thing
you do each day is eat a frog, then nothing worse will happen for the rest of
the day." How many of the things
that we fear are as scary as that?
We will never know how far
our unique ripples will flow until we take that first step into the stream each
day, and carry our own personal frog to higher ground.
One Tiny Step
The first tiny step
Is the one that will lead,
That will start your whole
process of growing;
It's the one to encourage,
As it breaks from its
bonds
And carries
us into unknowing;
Though the road be
unclear,
The tools not too near,
They will come to your
hand
By and by,
If you say to that step,
"I give you
permission
To drive my
life forward, to try";
For each tiny step
Has the power to move,
To make ripples of hope
In life's stream;
You may fall off the
track,
But, at least looking
back,
You'll be further ahead
Than you've
been!
