First Steps

[I have always been fascinated by photographs of baby elephants taking their first steps - there is something so universal in that bond between mother and child]

You try to take a step and nearly fall. You can’t understand why you need to walk at all. But, baby, there is a whole world out there, waiting to be explored. There are places to go, vistas to see. Unless you learn to walk, how will you ever make this world your own?
I know you feel you will never learn. But that is what I am here for – to assure you it can be done, and it can be done by you.
The first steps are the hardest, but when I am there, you will never walk alone.

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