Enjoy the Ride

Written by Kristi Huseby

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“Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God who is our salvation! Selah!”    (Psalm 68:19, Amplified Bible)

In college, I took a camping class for a semester and one of the requirements for the class was a weekend backpacking trip in Northern Michigan.  We were told that we would do some rafting, as well as climb a tree 100 feet up and then zip line across the river.  Our guide told us that everyone was required to go across the zip line and that if we took too long, he would push us off the branch!

Our guide had brought along his 9 year old son. When it came time for him to climb up the tree he made it about half-way up and then began to have a meltdown.  He refused to budge; he was stuck.

Let's Run Away

Gwen Smith

Today's Truth

And don't let us yield to temptation. (Matthew 6:13, NLT)

Friend to Friend

It was a windy winter day. Our three dogs needed to stretch their legs and get a bit of outside playtime, so I let them out to roam freely in our fenced-in back yard. An hour later, my husband asked me where the dogs were.

"Out back," I replied.

"Honey, the wind blew that gate wide open and only Rocky is on the deck! How long ago did you let them out?" He asked.

"An hour ago!" I exclaimed, as feelings of unease crept into my heart.

I Want to Run Away

By Lysa TerKeurst

"If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him—then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you." Deuteronomy 11:22-23 (NIV)

One of the worst feelings in the world to me is feeling stuck.

Stuck in a situation where I can't see things getting better. I look at the next 5 minutes, 5 hours, 5 days, and all I see are the same hard patterns being repeated over and over.

I try to give myself a pep talk and tap into that part of me that chooses to see the bright side. But it isn't there.

Life suddenly feels like it will forever be this way.