We’re Redemptive Living

Riding a bike is not something learned by thinking…it is learned by doing. No amount of dad talking about centrifugal force, or momentum, or gravity, or whatever is needed to ride a bike, is going to actually help you ride a bike. Feeling emotions is like learning to ride a bike.

Do you remember in third grade learning long division? The solar-powered Texas Instruments calculator? A few taps of the keypad and the answer magically appears. Yet your teacher would not accept a calculator generated answer. You had to, say it with me, “Show your work.” You could even get the right answer, but it would not count unless your teacher could see that you knew what you were doing. Long division had to be…longhand. We still love these kinds of short cuts in life, don’t we? Especially around the really difficult things…things like mending a broken relationship

It was a few months into my recovery journey. My wife and I were under a lot of pressure in life. The reality of my betrayal was heavy enough. Beyond that, there were other profound life difficulties. Through it all, I was determined to follow my recovery path. I realized that my entire self, my entire being, was in need of transformation. This day, things were relatively calm. Tammy and I stood in line at Qdoba and waited to order. She gave that knowing look and asked “Should we get our burrito?”