Forty Plus Miles

          Echoing in my head, over and over, and I am pondering it. "Doubt is a luxury we can no longer afford." , playing from "The Incredibles" movie, echoing deep inside. "How could I have afforded it then? Why did I even want to? What can I afford now?", questions I'm asking myself, reflecting on faith.             Playing clearly, loudly in my head as I reflect on this. "What will I 'buy'? What will I seek to 'afford'; what will we?" ; my family and I. Looking over times I was too afraid to have faith in greater proportions, not sowing better seeds than those into the soils of safe and comfortable. It's been many years now, and the journey for my family and I must change, we must have faith for greater things, seek to "afford" it, remembering that even a mustard seed of it can move mountains, and we can't "afford" not to as we place our trust in Jesus on another busy Monday where possibilities ...

         When you get knocked down, I hope you don't quit, pray you don't. When you fall flat on your face (and you will sometimes), I hope you get back up, I pray you do. Not everything will always work out, and some days it will be easy to stay down; but when you get knocked down, know you don't have to stay down, and that you can get back up again. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

         "I'm still here!" , he calls out loudly from some dark corridor that's long been forgotten. "Tag!", he yells, hitting me the way a ninja hits their target with their sword: quick, precise, and completely by surprise.            I jump, mumble angry words under my breath, and then take off in hot pursuit, fueled by fire to overtake my surprise assailant. Then it hits me: it's dark and I'm without a light here. I panic, stumble in the dark, and struggle all the way. He peers cautiously out, wonders if I'm pretending in order to lure him out, and emerges with a fresh bright light when it's clear I'm not. He walks with me, leads me along, and when he knows I'm safe he begins again. "Tag!", he yells as he strikes me in a fun child-like way and runs off. "I'm still here!", yells my inner child, returning me to wonder and joy so I can live again. I walk, first slowly, then faster as I no longer search with ...

 Whether weather works well, whether weather wrecks wholy; we will welcome wholeness wholeheartedly. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!