"THE GUIDE"

Topics: Help, Trust

While siding in Colorado one day, a man noticed some people on the slope
wearing red vests. Moving closer, he could read these words on their
vests: BLIND SKIER. He couldn't believe it. He had difficulty skiing with
20/20 vision! How could people without sight manage to ski?

He watched the skiers far awhile and discovered their secret. Each skier
had a guide who skied beside, behind, or in front of him, always in a
position where the two could easily communicate. The guide used two basic
forms of communication. First, tapping his ski poles together to assure
the blind person that he was there, and second, speaking simple, specific
directions: "Go right. Turn left. Slow. Stop. Skier on your right."

The skier's responsibility was to trust the guide to give good
instructions, and to immediately and completely obey those instructions.

We can't see even five seconds into the future. We cannot see the
struggles to come. Other people may run into us, or we into them, like
errant skiers on a crowded slope. But God has given us the Holy Spirit to
be our Guide through life-to walk before and behind us, and to dwell in
us. Our role is to listen and to obey.

- As excerpted from "God's Little Lessons On Life"
(Used with permission by Honor Books)