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#9146 Wings Over The Mountains of Life
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The Alaskan Chronicles - Four Pounds
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"There's only four pounds of pressure in the tires," Steve said.
It was our first full day in Alaska, and we were leaving for an
all-day ATV trip through the Alaskan backwoods to a glacier.
Steve explained that having only four pounds of pressure in the
tires helped the tires to bounce over rocks, logs and hills
without the tire being damaged. Since the ATV sat on the tires
and we sat on the ATV, the four pounds helped keep us from
being damaged.
For six hours we bounced over rocks, drove through rivers and
streams, and bounced over hills. I understood the four-pound
principle the rough way.
As people, we need four pounds.
Life comes at you hard. Rocky stuff, hilly stuff, stuff that
nearly drowns you and takes your breath away often faces you on
this journey. We need four pounds.
We are often overinflated.
We are puffed up, stiff necked and stuck up. When a rock or
hard experience gets in our path, instead of giving and easily
rolling over it, we hit it like we have iron instead of four
pound tires.
The resulting impact shatters us.
Much of our psychological pain is due to wounds to our ego.
It was one of the greatest and most thrilling adventures that
I'd ever experienced. I would not have made it overinflated.
Perhaps to rise higher, we need to let some of the air out.
~A MountainWings Original~
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