No Fear

The date is quickly approaching for our family’s next great outdoor adventure in the mountains of Colorado.   Our ski adventures always include my brother-in-law, sister-n-law and their two kids. Our youngest son was 6, our oldest sons were in their early teens and our niece and nephew were 7 and 4 when we took our first Carroll family ski trip.  I will never forget how fearless all of the kids were when they strapped on their skis.  They did not worry about going too fast or wiping out.  I was the only adult in our family who was not an experienced skier and I was afraid to go fast and was worried I might break a bone if I crashed.  My husband, brother-n-law, sister-n-law and all the kids saw a lot more of the mountain on that trip than I did because they were not fearful of the steepness of the slopes or the moguls they might encounter.  If I want to see more of God’s beautiful mountain library on this upcoming trip, I need to approach the slopes with less fear.  We didn’t stop our kids from skiing challenging and fast slopes and the way our kids approached skiing on that first trip reminds me of how we should be with our Christian faith.  Just as Jesus doesn’t want children stopped from coming to him, nothing should stop us from sharing our faith. 

The Holy Bible
Matthew 19:14New Living Translation (NLT) ¹⁴ But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.”

 

The Carroll Family