It’s Never Safe Until There’s Risk

If you want to create an atmosphere of safety, you can’t start with safety as a motivation. Safety as a motivation won’t tolerate risk of any kind. When danger becomes intolerable, then smaller and smaller risks become greater and greater problems. No-one can ask questions. No-one can address issues. No real conversations exist. No real relationships either. Nothing is allowed to disturb the artificial peace. When safety is the ultimate goal, no-one will ever be safe. Everything dies by default.

But if everyone is encouraged into healthy, appropriate and necessary risk, then safety can happen. Grace can abound in a place where each person is responsible to speak their minds, to exercise their callings, to simply try stuff. Then we all learn to moderate our expectations, to allow for people bumping into us as we bump into others, to learn from both good and bad experiences. Everything comes to life!