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When you read this, we will have returned from our week at Spring Canyon. Wednesday was a free day, and we took the granddaughters to the Mount Princeton Hot Springs, just a few miles away.
June and I first saw the facility more than 25 years ago, and, quite frankly, it was a bit of a dump. In recent years, someone has poured some money into it, and it’s quite nice, even though the 100-year-old bath house is still in use. As I looked at the attractive naturally heated pools, one for soaking and one for swimming, and the 400-foot water slide, recently added, I thought about accessibility.
The hot springs have always been there, but in their natural state, they would be hard to use. It would be rocky. Those pools and the slide didn’t build themselves. Neither did the roads we used to drive to them. A number of people worked hard to make the hot springs accessible to the public and enjoyable.
at Mt Princeton Hot Springs
I wrote the other day that I stand on the shoulders of others. We all do. Someone has worked to make our following Jesus accessible. I’m always encouraging us to spend time in the Word, which we couldn’t do if someone hadn’t translated it and someone else hadn’t printed it or made it available on an app.
I’ve devised a simple method to get you started with daily time with God, a method someone taught me. Lectio Divina is a similar system, but mine is more accessible since it’s in English (joke)! Following Jesus through the challenges of real life is hard, but preparing to follow Jesus needn’t be.
Please remember that as you help others. Pass on to them the tools you’ve been given. Show them how you use them. Keep making following Jesus accessible to all.
Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few…These 12 Jesus sent out…” Matthew 9.37, 10.5 (Jesus made going out accessible!)
Freely you have received; freely give. (Matthew 10.8, NASB)