100 Feet of Certainty

You can drive across the country from coast to coast at night seeing only as far as your headlights will shine. One hundred feet at a time you move through the world. You can hope, plan, and imagine what lies around the next curve, but you cannot know with certainty until you arrive.

Dancing with uncertainty is the art of life. There is something electrifying about not knowing.

When uncertainty strikes, you have two choices. You can freeze and stay where you are, or you can press onward in faith.

Imagine being one of the Founding Fathers or a revolutionary soldier. They had conviction in their cause, but no guarantee of how it would all end. Their certainty stretched only as far as the glow of their candles.

Compared to them, we have a floodlight shining on what is next. Yet even with all our modern clarity, we still see only about one hundred feet ahead. Beyond that is mystery.

Learning to be comfortable with uncertainty is how you navigate this world day by day.

Doubt is natural. By definition, doubt means being divided between two possibilities. It is the tension of wanting to move forward while looking back. But that tension is worth solving, because it is what drives growth.

I have made mistakes that shaped my life for the better. At the time, I could not see it. The setbacks felt like failures, yet they became turning points that moved me closer to who I was meant to become.

Isn’t that the beauty of life? Rich with opportunity, even in the moments that feel uncertain.

The Chinese have a saying: fall down seven times and get up eight. That is the rhythm of life.

Dance with doubt. Make the best calls you can. Learn. Adjust. Stay in the game.

Because the headlights of faith will always show you just enough of the road ahead to keep moving forward.