Flying. I think every man has experianced this moment. The moment before something happens. When you know that right now something big is occurring; that what you choose at this moment will change the course of your life. A twinge in the pit of your stomach right before takeoff. An Olympian right before the race; a soldier rigt before battle; a girl right before the birth of her first child. Life is full of these crucial moments; and with them the choices we make that make these moments important. Its like standing on the brink of a cliff. You look down below and can't fully see the bottom: it is shrouded in a mist and fog so below all looks like a gray blur. It is hazy and you begin to have doubts about whether or not you should go through with this. Fear creeps up and lightning streaks across the field of your mind illuminating worries that you couldn't see before. What if I don't make it? What if this mountain was too high to begin with? What if there is something bad at the bottom that I don't know about? What would happen if I turned back now? What if I get hurt? You begin to consider.the possibility of turning around. Of making your way back down the mountain back down the road you already know. Your mind wanders to the road that brought you here and for a moment you think you can turn back. But then you remember the things that brought you here. All the pain and trails that have lead you to this place-for what? To turn around would mean for nothing. And then you think... it is for what is awaits, beyond the fog that shrouds the unknown. For the life you have to live beyond where you are right now. For the beautiful beyond that await beyond this bend. You can't go back now. And so you don't. With a victory cry that resounds of the rock you plunge headfirst onto your fears and watch them peel back like rain till there is nothing left but sunshine. As you drift through the clouds and onward you still are unsure that you made the right choice- but this is the life you have chosen to live. A life made to shine and to overcome. And that is the life I choose to live now. But i will jump knowing that You'll catch me. That the gray blur of the future is not unknown to You. And that You are calling me to jump out and shine. And I will do that and more. I will soar.