HCLM BLOG

Do you Remember when you were younger and you loved to run down hill? Faster and Faster until you could do nothing but fall? I was reminded of this today.

Our little grandson Owen is visiting from Chicago, he is 18 months and walking very well. Today we had a moving truck in the driveway and we were loading some furniture that they were taking back to Chicago. It is the type of truck that has a ramp in the back. The ramp was down and Owen was excited to walk up the ramp, little tiny steps as he wobbled his way up for the first time. When he got to the top he immediately turned around and wanted to walk down. I held his hand and he inched his way down the ramp the way he came, and you guessed it, when he reached the bottom he turned to go back up. This time a little less slowly and with more assurance. As you can imagine with an almost 2 year old, this game will never get old! By the end (when I could not do it anymore), he was running up and down the ramp with reckless abandon!

Did you ever feel like your life was running down hill? Often when we try something new we are very tentative until we figure out just how to do it. Then when we get started running down hill the only thing that we can do is run faster and faster. As Holy Cross moves into a new phase of our growth and we begin to tackle the idea of 7 new areas in the next 10 years, I am beginning to feel like I am running down hill, very exciting and scary and testing the limits of my skills. How far can we go?

When Owen was going down the ramp for about the 43rd time, I went to do something else and he was quite adamant that "Pappy" needed to stand right next too him or he would not go down. I did not have to do anything, he just needed to know that I was there. Not much different than the conversation that I had with God yesterday, "I want to do this, I Can do this if you will just stand near me for the times that I am going to fall!".

We have a great god who is just waiting for us to try something that we have never done before so that He can help and we can be successful. Why not try "running down hill" tomorrow and see how God protects you.

In Christ,