Where You Look is Where You’ll Go

Years ago I signed up for a race where you hike up a mountain, then run 5 miles down. So crazy, but I did it!

A year later, a group of us wanted to do it again 🤷‍♀️, but didn’t want to pay the entrance fee. So we decided to just do an “unofficial” race ourselves on a different day. 

It was an adventure! Besides not bringing enough water (Hiking 101?!) we had no one leading the way for us like we did in the “official” race, & we got SO lost! Overgrown branches slashed us & wasps stung us as we stumbled & wandered through “crooked paths,” turning from the “right hand... to the left,” (D&C 3:2) trying to find our way. Then we eyed the radar domes at the top of the mountain. While we couldn’t find the exact path, we knew THAT was our destination. We headed straight towards those domes! Eventually we found the path & made it to the top. The view: well worth it!

As I read about God NOT walking in “crooked paths” because “his paths are straight,” I thought about what a relief that is. We can trust His paths! He is our constant! 

I LOVE what @noellepikuspace, Olympic silver medalist in skeleton, says in the “All In” podcast episode 92:

“In skeleton, our vision is so critical. As we're going down a track, going 90 miles an hour & steering, we apply pressures with our shoulders & our knees, & we're constantly torquing our sled the entire way down a mile-long course, countering against the pressures that come... The second that our vision gets distracted, the second we look 2 inches to the right, our sled will go 2 inches to the right. We go where we look. Where our vision is taking us, that's where our sled will go... Where are we setting our sights each & every day? ...Where you look is where you’ll go, and as we go where the Lord wants us to go, our lives will be tremendously better... If we're setting our sights on our own will and our own desires, it's only going to take us so far, & it's going to be a rough, rocky road. But as we connect our will with His will, & connect our sight with His sight, He'll take us all the way.”❤️

Whether climbing up a mountain,

speeding down one, 

or anywhere in between, 

look to Him. 

He’ll take you where you need to go.