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(Day 14) - Tarpaulin Mats Labels: Surprise Me God experiment
In camps, I used to play a really popular team-building game where there's this tarpaulin mat laid on a slope, entirely smothered in a mixture of starch, water, soap, -insert yuckygooey mess here-, etc etc.
The objective of the game is to get a team member from the bottom of the slope to the top. Across the mat, of course. But since that darn thing would be so slippery with all the gunk slathered on that you can't get a proper grip or foothold... You'll start seeing people take a running leap to try and pull themselves up the slope before slipping and sliding all the way down again.
Most of the time, the winning team's solution would be to have its members all lying down with one on top of the other across the mat; feet on each other's shoulders to form a makeshift human ladder, before a member would climb over their sprawled carcasses bodies to the top.
I just had this flashback of what, in my personal opinion, is a really horrible game cause I thought it's like me and my sins.
I try to get to the top, but my sins keep causing me to slip and slide all the way to rockbottom again...
I can never make it on my own.
But God gave me brothers & sisters who love me enough to bother to lay themselves down - getting all mucked up and dirty, be it through prayers or words of encouragements or even fighting the devil, just so I can pull through..
Who are your team members in your life, now?
