letting go to climb the wall
last monday, i got to try wall climbing for the first time. i’ve seen it a lot of times before but i never tried it. i thought that i was too heavy to scale the wall. i couldn’t imagine scaling a 50 feet or 75 feet wall while i entrusted my safety to a thin piece of rope. the objective of wall climbing is easy: use different grips or hand holds to reach the top most part. actually doing it though is a different story. you have to use your arms and legs to pull yourself up. its a lot of hard work but the satisfaction of reaching the top is well worth it.
one person in our group was stuck in the middle of the wall. she couldn’t move up or down because she refused to let go of the hand hold she was holding. she was doing fine at first but she reached a hard part and she couldn’t seem to reach the next grip. we told her to let go so the instructor can pull her down. she wouldn’t let go so she couldn’t go down. she was terrified of falling down that she gripped the hand hold with all her might. as a result, she was just there on the wall, stuck.
as i watch her frozen in the middle of the wall, i realized one thing. you have to let go in order to move on.like wall climbing, sometimes you have to let go of certain things in our lives in order to welcome new things. if we don’t let go, we can never move up or down. you will just stay stagnant in one position. sometimes it’s an issue of trust. some people refuse to let go of the grip because they don’t trust the strength of the rope or the instructor beneath them. but trusting the rope or the person holding the rope is part of the process. you cannot climb the wall if you don’t trust the person holding you. in the same way, you can’t move on if you can’t trust god.
it’s funny how God reveals things in the most unexpected places…
as for my friend, she finally let go the of the grip and finished the wall
