Sometimes we don’t need the path removed or the turn to feel less scary…
We just need someone beside us.
My daughter was scared to rollerblade down this hill.
Not because she couldn’t do it,
but because the turn at the bottom felt overwhelming.
So I ran beside her with my hand out.
I wasn’t holding her up.
I wasn’t steering.
I wasn’t carrying her.
But I was there.
Later she said:
“I knew I could do it because I knew you were there and you weren’t going to let me fall.”
And I immediately thought,
Isn’t that how God meets us?
He doesn’t always remove the hard thing.
He doesn’t always make the scary part disappear.
But His presence changes how we face it.
Sometimes courage doesn’t come because life got easier.
Sometimes it comes because we remember:
We’re not doing this alone.
“For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand…” — Isaiah 41:13