When I saw how high the ropes were, I got scared

Nina Schmidbaur

At camp last summer, I decided to try a course called "High Ropes." But when I saw how high the ropes were, I got scared. You had to go 65 feet in the air (attached only to a wire), and all you had to balance on was another wire under your feet. It looked hard!

For the first two days I went up, but I came right back down. On the third day, I finally did the mini-course. It was fun.

On the fifth day I started on the whole course. There were lots of different "challenges" on the course—things you had to climb or walk over or figure out a way to get across. On the ground it might have been easy to walk across one little log, for example, but it was a lot harder all the way up in the air. When I got to the second "cargo net" (one of the challenges), I was really scared (even though I knew I had ropes attached to me to keep me from falling). I started to pray.

I thought about the 23rd Psalm. I recited the whole psalm silently and really concentrated on feeling that I was in God's care and that I was never apart from God. In the psalm I remembered, "The Lord is my shepherd." And I thought, "God is guarding me." I remembered, "I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." And I realized I could get through any problems I had because God was helping me. This comforted me while I finally finished up the entire course.

The whole rest of the summer, I did High Ropes every chance I got.

I am so grateful I have Christian Science to help me.

Nina Schmidbaur
Saugerties, New York

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