Momentum
Years ago I attended the University of Santa Cruz in California and after some intense classes a bunch of us would go into the surrounding redwood forests to ride our mountain bikes. It was beautiful mountain bike country with steep hills and large roots that would sometimes stick out into the bike path to make a perfect jumping platform.
I remember one day in particular when we were coming down one of the hills, the Marine in front of me decided to lazily take one of the jumps. We all kind of laughed at his “girly” jump and of course someone in the crowd just had to show him how a “real man” should ride a mountain bike and specifically how to take a jump.
So there I was about one hundred yards up the slope of a hill, pedaling down and changing gears just as fast and as hard as I could to gain momentum. This was going to be a jump that would make Evel Knievel look like a boy scout. I was riding a five hundred dollar top of the line, made to perfection, all terrain, two wheeled piece of machinery that was, well, not made for flight… but unfortunately, that revelation came a little too late.
As I hit the jump made from the root of a large redwood, the momentum I had built up separated into two parts; the bike went flying one way and I the other. As I was flying through the air, somersaulting over and over, the guys said I looked like a praying mantis falling from the sky with just the front two arms looking for something to grab on to. Eventually, gravity took hold and I hit the dirt with a loud thud. Little did I know at the time how much air could be expelled from ones lungs with such an impact.
Well everything but the bike turned out to be o.k. in the end but I tell this story because as I think about Momentum and what Pastor Donna has shared, I think that sometimes we can have the wrong “momentum”. Like me on the bike; going too fast, full speed ahead and then somewhere along the way we become separated from Him and what He has for us.
How is your Momentum?
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