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I wonder if you've ever heard 
the name Bjarni Harafsen. 

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He was the captain of a Viking 
ship in 1986 AD. 

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He crossed the Atlantic on the 
way to visit his father in 

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Greenland, but his ship got 
pummeled by waves and he went 

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off course, getting lost. 
After the storm was over, he 

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found land, but this was not 
Greenland, but the coast of 

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North America. 
Bjarni decided not to get off 

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his ship because he was anxious 
to visit his father, so he 

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turned around and sailed back. 
Several years later, he told his

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friend Leif Erikson about the 
journey, while Erikson decided 

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to retrace Bjarni's trip and 
became the first European to 

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ever set foot in North America. 
Most people today have heard of 

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Leif Erikson, but hardly anyone 
knows about Bjarni Harafsson, 

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the Viking who could have become
a world famous explorer. 

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All he had to do was get off the
boat. 

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I feel like this is true for 
most of us. 

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We are frustrated with some part
of our life and we pray for 

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change, but often times we don't
approve of the changes. 

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Or I could say we don't approve 
the opportunities that are 

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presented to us. 
We fail to realize that there's 

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a thin line between risk and 
opportunity and often times they

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are one in the same. 
In First Corinthians, it says 

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there is no visual likeness 
between the seed and the plant. 

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You can never guess what a 
tomato would look like by 

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looking at the tomato seed. 
But we plant in the soil and 

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what grows out of it don't look 
anything alike. 

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The dead body that we bury in 
the ground and the resurrection 

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body that comes from it will be 
dramatically different. 

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Like Leif Ericsson, I hope that 
when the opportunity for change 

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presents itself, you will take 
that leap of faith, that you 

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will step off that boat, look 
towards the unbridled wilderness

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and remind yourself that nothing
changes if nothing changes. 

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This has been everyday miracles 
by hope, mindfulness and prayer.