The bicycle kid

Being fully of aware of God's presence in my life, lots of times, things stick out and I know that God is trying to teach me a lesson through those things. Or God is using those things that I see to plant a seed for a blog post like tonight...

When I was running this afternoon, I saw this kid on his bicycle recklessly crossing the road. As he sped across he was going to try and hop the curb. I could see it in his face that he was determined to hop the curb because it was going to look really cool. As he approached the curve it was clear to me that he was going way too fast.

He hit the curb, tumbled over, and laughed it off. He had the same smile on his face when he had this amazing idea as he did when he failed and crashed. When he got up, he sped right past me and told me he was okay with an exciting tone in his voice!

I literally thought he was crazy! He just crashed his bike and did two summersaults and laughed it off like nothing happened.

This was really appealing to me. I thought to myself: Oh how easy it was to be as careless as a child. When I was a kid I didn't care how many times I crashed my bike or how many times I spun out rollerblading. I always got right back up and didn't really care that I failed and that people had seen me fail.

As I thought that...it hit me! This was what I needed to encouraged y'all with tonight. Who cares if you fail. Who cares if you mess up. Get right back up and try it again! There is absolutely no need to ever hang your head about anything.

Do you ever wonder why the windshield of your car is so much larger than your review mirror? The future and what is coming is so much greater than what is behind you.

Next time you crash, and whatever that means to you, get right back up. Tell someone that you are okay and try it again!

This might have been a silly post but I believe it is super effective.

Be the bicycle kid. Without a care in the world besides trying again.