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By Eric Abney

“I feel as though I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.”  I have said this before.  I have felt this before, and I am betting in some ways you have too.  At least at one time or another in your life.  A friend of mine shared this picture over twitter and it made me think about our lives and how they might get into hard places or how we might feel like we are between a rock and a hard place.  Often times in these places there is such a sense of being overwhelmed.  We might not know what to do or how to get moving from the place we are in to the place where we should be going.

I was rock climbing at Mt. Currahee in Toccoa, GA.  There is one particular climb that has very few holds.  It’s almost like you have to make something out of nothing.  My brother said this, “You have to just inch your way up.”  I thought this was a great realization.  It’s true, I think it may be true also in the hard places.  Let’s be honest, it’s not easy, it doesn’t feel good, and you don’t want to be where you are, but you might just have to “inch your way through it.”

Now, what does that mean?  I think it means do the next right thing.  Whatever the next right thing is for your situation.  I’ll bet we don’t get into hard places overnight, this means we won’t get out of hard places overnight either.

What does the next right thing look like?  I think only you can answer that.  Ask yourself, ask God, and then do it.  I think it’s possible to bloom in the hardest of places.

Be Challenged and Live Adventurously,

-Eric

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~ by Eric Abney on August 11, 2010.

Posted in Eric Abney
Tags: experience, God, Hard Place, life, Rock