The only real security in life lies in relishing life’s insecurity – M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), p. 136.

A final set of comments from Robert Ball’s Walking on Water: Self-Esteem and a Journey of Faith:

Referring to the above words from M. Scott Peck, Dr. Ball writes:

At first those words may seem to imply there is no security, but that’s not what they say.  They state clearly that there is a real security.  It requires being willing, and more than willing – excited – to live in full recognition that we do not have all the answers and never will.  We don’t know what’s going to happen to us or to the world.  Yet, when we believe we are loved, something within us wants to live, to be a part of that uncertainty, and even relishes it.

But why does Peck call that great uncertainty “security”?  From my faith perspective, I think it’s because living in that uncertainty, loving and choosing and feeling, we discover that that’s where we are meant to be.  It’s security because in that situation we are fulfilling our destiny, being the persons God created us to be, living the life we were created to live.  Living in uncertainty is right for us, being creatures in a world we did not create but which was (and is) created by God, who loves and cares for us personally and wants us to be here.  It’s the security of being who we are.  It’s a life available only to those who esteem themselves enough to choose it, to make the journey.

Achieving healthy self-esteem is a life-long journey.  It is a spiritual journey in which we continually make new choices of faith and then dare to act on those choices.

Dare to make the journey.  Practice your faith. (212-213)

Amen and Amen!!