These are two of our granddaughters, and we were spending some time with them at Skyzone, the trampoline heaven for thousands of kids and adults.  I got this picture of them just after they hit the foam pit at 60 mph…ok, well maybe 25!  And while watching all the jumpers, from about a year old to probably 18 years, it was amazing to see how fearless they all were!  

There’s a trampoline mat right before the edge of the pit, and the goal is to jump higher and higher, then fling yourself into the pit.  For the littlest ones, that mean literally running and falling.  But for the older ones, that meant flinging, diving, or even backflipping at full speed into a mass of foam bricks, only to get up and do it all over again.

As I continued to watch the jumpers, I felt this incredible wave of pure envy wash over my whole being!  Not for the physical ability they had, because I know my limits.  But their attitude!  Fearless, excited, totally abandoned to the moment and the possibilities each jump had.  Total trust that leaping forward was a GOOD thing…and that someone had prepared everything so they would not get hurt. 

So, you may ask?  What’s the point?  It’s this!  I was overwhelmed by memories of my spiritual journey when I had felt and acted the way those kids had!  I remembered great big LEAPS of faith in my past, and I was SO overcome with intense longing to be that way again!  Memories of accepting the challenege of a year long discipleship course where we felt our call to missions.  Memories of accepting that call, abd driving an hour each way every Monday night for 5 years to attend seminary while we both worked fulltime, and of refining what that missions call meant.  The memory of leaving Georgia to live in Denver for two years, right after Robert’s daughter told us she was pregnant with her first child, and knowing we would miss the birth!  And SO many more!

I found myself, upstairs in that adult courtesy lounge, begging God to do it again!  To challenge me, change me, and give me a great BIG assignment once more!  And praising Him for the continual gift to be used by Him, even once, to expand HIS Kingdom and for HIS glory!

So that’s what!  And here’s the best part: (1) a BIG assignment may not be big in the world’s eyes, but it will be to God!  (2) BIG assignments grow BIG faith, and we all need strengthening to face the continual darkness in our world! And (3), BIG assignments are available to ANY child of God who just says yes!!

Isn’t now the BEST time for some foam pit faith???