Do you ever recall being in a tree house or swinging on a rope bridge? Those memories were brought back as I set foot on the 480 foot long suspension bridge that was 230 feet above the Capilano River in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The bridge was full of people and with each step the span would bounce about three feet up and down and sway over five feet from side to side. There was a bridge guard at each end of this bridge to rescue people who froze from fear while trying to cross. Those who did not would never know what was on the other side.
Arriving on the other side a wood walkway led to an fully operational tree house. The difference was that the material used for this house was so much stronger than the ones I had built as a child. Standing at a window looking over the forest just flooded my memory about those days when life was so simple and there were few cares in the world..
Upon exiting the house I entered smaller suspension bridges. These bridges were connected from Douglas firs to Hemlock firs where you were walking over eighty feet off the ground. Examining the platform around the trees we discovered that at eighty feet off the ground, the trees were still enormous with a circumference from twenty to forty feet. Looking out over the tree tops and down into the canyon where bears feed, it was a time to reflect on the source of all this majestic beauty. Everything looked so small below and so large looking up.
Definitely it was a time to seek God and to know Him once again. Among these trees I understood that I was a miniature to God’s creation and just a speck in the riverbed below. It is so easy to look around and think that everyone had little to no value in the world today.
Do you know someone who may talk down to us, ignore us, or just avoid us because of their busy lives? Aren’t there times in our lives that we feel like the old adage of Eeyore who says, “Guess I'll just eat worms and die”? God's word in 1st John 4:7-10 we are to love others when we don’t feel like they need to be loved. This direction is tough when we are going through major traumas in life. Yet as we read on, we discover that we should look at the example God gives us every day.
He loved us so much that he gave His Son, Jesus, for our losing our cool and yet He wants to have a relationship with Him.
Take a quiet walk and absorb God once again. You will again be amazed that in spite of our small stature, that YOU are the most important thing on earth to God. Once you are connected again to God, it will be easy to get into the swing of a productive life without the fear of suspension bridges, people, and troubles.
1st John 4: 7-10 “My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love - so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about - not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.”
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