I went to an adventure park earlier this month, as a birthday present from a dear friend. :) (You know who you are! :) Just like at ski resorts, there were different courses with varying levels of difficulty. In the pic above, I was on the yellow level a/k/a the bunny slope. You can tell because a) I'm smiling and b) I was striking a ballerina pose to keep things interesting.
Sarah and Peggy and I breezed through the yellow level. When we hit green, we discovered that part of the challenge wasn't the obstacles, it was the waiting. There were some small boys in front of us on one course and they were struggling with various elements. We tried to help them, but had to admit we were finding their pace frustrating. And we couldn't get around them, either. It was basically an obstacle-course traffic jam, only since we weren't in cars, we couldn't listen to music or check our phones or do anything that we usually do to pass the time. Sarah and I were commenting that we wished we could pick and choose the challenges in life. On this day, we thought we had picked one challenge, and life threw another one at us. The situation was testing our patience. But we didn't want our patience tested!
Eventually, we got through the green level. Blue was supposed to be the next level but we were so eager to push ourselves that we went straight to black (not unlike a double diamond ski slope). The ladder you see above was the first obstacle of the course. I had to work hard to make it up that ladder (being small has its disadvantages, at times), but I scrambled up it successfully (and so did Sarah).
It helped to have friends on the course with me. It made me feel stronger and braver. And when any of us felt uncertain, we helped each other out, either physically with the carabiners and such, or emotionally with a "you got this!" Never underestimate the power of a friend nearby. And keep in mind that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. (I don't think it's in the Bible, but I believe it to be so!)
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