Brave Heart 2

This may not make a lot of sense if you did not read “Brave Heart.” You can go back a couple of days and read it first if you like. Anyway. . .

I took the ledge trip. They lied about the width – there was a spot (about 20 feet or so) where the path was “shoe width” size and one place where one had to cross a chasm (at least a mile or two deep) on a 5 inch diameter log (about six steps – or a quarter mile it seemed) that lay across the opening. My guide, a young man about 19-20 years old, told me not to worry. He had never seen anyone fall off the cliff – I think it was his second day!

Actually, the trail is used mostly by kids and teen-agers who travel to CAMP EAGLE for their Adventure Camps. The trail is about 75  feet (which is just a few inches below a thousand) above the river bed – and it really is about a foot wide, and less, in some places. “Hooking in” to the cable, and obeying the rules about “un-hooking” as one reaches the bolts (holding the cable to the rock wall every 100 feet or so) eliminates the danger for everyone under “old age.” Old guys who suffer from acrophobia and wobble a bit on worn legs, find it a bit more difficult. I really felt silly watching the teen-age girl (a staff member at Camp Eagle), who followed me every step making sure I obeyed the rules, walking along as if she were in the middle of Interstate 35.

Life is like that. Some walk thru it with great fear and concern. Some move along with great peace knowing the comfort that God brings to those who trust Him. It is that knowledge and certainty of His absolute sufficiency that makes life a blast and not a bust.

Whatever the “edge” may be in your experience – Christ is there to redeem you from the chasm, provide absolute protection along the path. . . and keep your heart rate down a good bit lower than mine by the time I finished that cliff walk.