When The Chair Is Too High...
A few years ago I remember going out to eat with a group of people. We all gathered around the table and took our seats. I was in my mobility scooter. We had been walking as a group and touring the place we were visiting. I wheeled on in and found that the only tables available were ones that were really high with bar stools. I got as close to the table as I could in my scooter chair, but the reality was that it was difficult for me to get up to the table and climb in to the high chairs. I finished the meal together with my friends from the lower seat of my scooter chair trying to not let the sting of it all get to me. Moments like these of inaccessibility are hard to process sometimes. As I work through the frustration of times like these the silver lining in it all is that the Lord often uses these moments to teach me...and maybe you as you read this?! On a spiritual level, the above scene of the chair being too high for me makes me think of how often we as Christians ma