I hit the slopes with my board yesterday afternoon to shred and balance my full week with a full weekend. The morning had proven cloudy, but as I parked and stepped out of my Jeep in the lot, the sun peeked out. And stayed out for another 3 hours. Perfect. I was alone with no distractions. Just me and a time. For nearly 2 hours, I had nothing to think about. Just the beautiful and blessedly warm day. But my day was abruptly interrupted when I heard someone yell loudly. It was a guy's voice. It sounded panicked. And close.
WHAP! (The hit) POW! (The flying powder) BOOM! (The fall)
Next thing I know, I'm down for the count. He's ahead of me about 15 ft., sprawled out on his back, still strapped in his board. My hat and goggles are scattered behind me, which were politely given to me by his friend who was apparently behind him. Needless to say, I only stayed about another 1/2 hour beyond that to head to the grocery store and go home ASAP with my back feeling like I was missing a few discs and wishing my head would be missing, if only to momentarily dull the pain.
Snowboarding, especially when you're new, is about balance. Yes. As cliche as it is, it's a lot like life. And, as I so surprisingly found out, so is the risk of being hit from behind.
In these last several months, it seems I have struggled to find balance between leisure and work, work and ministry, ministry and it's catalyst, that accelerant and the process, the process and it's product. I find myself questioning everything right now, where I am living, the ministry I am involved in, the job I am doing, and some friendships. And I am questioning as to why am I doing what I am doing,
and if I want to even continue as I am. Do I hope for too much? Do I have what it takes?
(2 Peter 1:3-11) the Message
Did you hear that?! Do you see it?! If you are a believer in Jesus, then, you have already been given
everything you need for Life and Godliness! You already have the motivation you need to balance!
Look at verse 10. See? There it is! "Life on a firm footing".
So, when you get hit from behind and you don't even know what happened, just sit there and quietly decide to never give up. Perseverance may be you deciding to try the run again or you may have to walk away and go home. But the very fact you are being forced to make a decision on how to persevere means you have already found your balance.
WHAP! (The hit) POW! (The flying powder) BOOM! (The fall)
Next thing I know, I'm down for the count. He's ahead of me about 15 ft., sprawled out on his back, still strapped in his board. My hat and goggles are scattered behind me, which were politely given to me by his friend who was apparently behind him. Needless to say, I only stayed about another 1/2 hour beyond that to head to the grocery store and go home ASAP with my back feeling like I was missing a few discs and wishing my head would be missing, if only to momentarily dull the pain.
Snowboarding, especially when you're new, is about balance. Yes. As cliche as it is, it's a lot like life. And, as I so surprisingly found out, so is the risk of being hit from behind.
In these last several months, it seems I have struggled to find balance between leisure and work, work and ministry, ministry and it's catalyst, that accelerant and the process, the process and it's product. I find myself questioning everything right now, where I am living, the ministry I am involved in, the job I am doing, and some friendships. And I am questioning as to why am I doing what I am doing,
and if I want to even continue as I am. Do I hope for too much? Do I have what it takes?
How is your balance?
3 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!
4 We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you - your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.
5 So don't
lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding,
6alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder,
7warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others.
8 With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass
without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus.
9 Without these qualities
you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
10 So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing,
11 the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.Did you hear that?! Do you see it?! If you are a believer in Jesus, then, you have already been given
everything you need for Life and Godliness! You already have the motivation you need to balance!
Look at verse 10. See? There it is! "Life on a firm footing".
So, when you get hit from behind and you don't even know what happened, just sit there and quietly decide to never give up. Perseverance may be you deciding to try the run again or you may have to walk away and go home. But the very fact you are being forced to make a decision on how to persevere means you have already found your balance.
Amen !!!!! : )
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