In the Bible, the Creator tells Abraham to go out of his house and to leave his place of birth. According to the kabbalists, leaving one’s house is a code for creating a new beginning. For Abraham to reach his potential as the channel of mercy for the whole world, he first needed to go out from his comfort zone.
How does this apply to our lives? Well, we know that making a decision to change is important, but unless we do something about it, the change cannot manifest. Sometimes in order to reach the next level of our potential, we need to do things that take us beyond ourselves and out of the nice boxes we have organized around our lives. We need to be okay with the fact that we may not know how the conversation will conclude, or how our day will unfold, or where we will be in five years’ time.
Our job is not to know the specific outcome of every situation, but rather to know that our actions—positive or negative—actually make a difference in the bigger picture.