Today was my day off, and since the grass hasn’t grown in a month, I took the day off from yardwork! If you were looking for me today, you would have had to be in the water.
This morning I took a few high school guys out for an early morning (by high school guy standards) kayak lesson on one of the ponds at Harvest Fields. What a blessing it is to have such a beautiful place to call my “office!” A couple of the guys wanted to move from flat water to the creek, so we grabbed some lunch and rolled out to Bellefonte. We spent a couple of hours playing in the freezing cold water before heading home.
This afternoon I taught a kayak lesson for some folks I’ve connected with outside of church. We went back to the creek to work on moving across the current (ferrying, if you will) and learning to maintain balance in moving water. You’d be surprised at how much difference a little moving water makes! Even in the slow Spring Creek, it can be a little tricky to stay upright.
I’m a little waterlogged from spending a good portion of the day upside down, trying to show/teach people how to get right-side up after they have flipped over. It’s funny how something becomes “easy” once you know how to do it, but seems awfully difficult while you’re learning the subtleties. We remarked many times today about the difference between “easy” and “simple.” The difference can be astounding.
I’m thinking that there’s a lesson to be learned here, a principle for life maybe…
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