• The Hill


    The HILL....tough ride up one side, but look at this view going down....
    The HILL....tough ride up one side, but look at this view going down....

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    This past weekend I fell into a mood of contemplation. It doesn’t happen often, but it started with a hill, a song, and this sign.

    I know, you might be, like, “Jeez, does Lynn ever not relate something to sports?”

    I’d have to say, “Rarely.”

    I grew up in an athlete’s home (Dad was a marathon runner/Mom tennis player), sports helped pay for my college, I married a sports nut and athlete . . . So, yeah, pretty much most of my ‘insights’ if you call them that, relate to or are triggered by sports.

    This past weekend, we went to Sedona to do a monster bike ride. Mega hills out there.

    Sufficient, by Adie Camp was playing while I tried to get up this one hill. I didn’t think I’d make it to tell you the truth. I was totally empty, I am only so strong, right? My abilities can only take me so far. Maybe this hill was just too big for me.

    Then these words came rattling over the earphones:

    Be my strength lord when my strength fades away.

    When I am weak, your strength is complete.

    It’s perfectly, completely all I need.

    Well, I made it up the hill and at the top took the picture you see to show the curves and a little bit about how much it goes down. I think I hit 35 MPH on that downhill.

    But more than the excitement of hitting such a top speed on a road bike, and even more than the thrill of having made it up the other side of that hill, was the gentle reminder of knowing I can’t do it on my own. Because I am weak but HE is strong.

    I needed that reminder.