Leap of Faith

ArialFriends sent me this quote in an email today.(on a Masai description of our faith)"… similar to a white hunter shooting an animal with his gun from a great distance.  Only his eyes and his fingers took part in the act. We should find another word. He said for a man really to believe is like a lion going after its prey.  His nose and eyes and ears pick up the prey.  His legs give him the speed to catch it.  All the power of his body is involved in the terrible death leap and single blow to the neck with the front paw, the blow that actually kills.  And as the animal goes down the lion envelops it in his arms (Africans refer to the front legs of an animal as its arms), pulls it to himself, and makes it part of himself.  This is the way a lion kills.  This is the way a man believes.  This is what faith is. ... All the time we think we are the lion.  In the end, the lion is God” (Donovan 2005:48).A new definition of a leap of faith. Not shooting from a distance, but enveloping it and making it part of ourselves. Have to munch on this for awhile today.