The Walk

I took the seniors away this last weekend to Sunriver, Oregon. I had an interesting revelation while I was there. Normally I am a pretty lazy person and will choose to drive over other means of transportation. Hence my Pooh Bear tummy. But Sunriver is a place that changes that outlook and I think also gives perspective on some important things in life. You see in Sunriver there are two separate networks of transportation one for cars and one for walking, running and biking. The entire city was built so that once you drove to the house you are staying at you don't have to drive anywhere else for your entire stay. It was a pretty big paradigm shift for city people to not so much focus on the destination but on the entire journey. We all have a goal we are trying to reach, but who has ever reached that goal without first learning along the way. Isn't your favorite part of a lot of movies right at the beginning when our hero is training for the big fight and he or she is going through the long painful process of learning what it takes to win. "Paint the fence, sand the floor and wax the car," are the classic examples of this. We had some great conversations while journeying together on this trip and it was a testament to what has happened over the last four years of these students lives. God cares about the journey because I think the more you learn on the walk with Him the better equipped you will be to lead others on the same road. So in your walk don't focus so much on the destination that you forget to cherish the journey.