6/15/2022 0 Comments You Are standing in your miracleI grew up on a farm. When I was a kid, by early August we'd get lost running in between rows of six feet tall corn stalks. In the middle of those rows, it was easy to forget there was a day those stalks weren't always six feet tall.
There was a day, in fact, when that field was nothing but an endless square of black dirt. Kids don't spend a lot of time thinking about that as they run under the cover of rows that disappear into forever. As an adult, though, looking back on those days, I spend a lot of time thinking about that. I need to. Those memories are more than memories now. They are lessons. There are days I find myself standing in that endless field of dirt. Looking around and wondering, where the heck is the corn? Then I'm reminded - it's only June. The miracles in that dirt - the miracles of June - they are still untapped. But August is coming. I've run through enough corn mazes in my life to know that for sure. August is coming. I can lose sight of that. That the miracles I am in have been raised from the miracles of where I've been. To lose sight of that is to miss the chance to feel a miracle under the weight of waiting. If you stare at dirt long enough it can begin to look barren and lifeless. But if you think about it - just how miraculously untrue is that? Exactly how much life - how much miracle - has to be going on beneath that season of dirt to transform it into a sea of six foot life? If you feel like you are standing in the middle of a field - lost - please know you are not. You are standing in the middle of a miracle. Some miracles are easier to see than others. Maybe the idea isn't to always see them, but to always know they are there. I didn't know that - lost in the middle of those corn rows. I know it now. And I'm thankful for that.
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