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Sometime ago I accepted an invitation to go rock-climbing with a friend, an experienced climber. It was my first climb and something I had wanted to do for years. The experience turned out to be much more challenging than I had imagined.<\/p>\n
My objective was simply to reach the top. I had barely begun when serious doubt crept about reaching the top. I realized this was far more difficult than I had expected. But I was determined to proceed as far as I could. At the halfway point, my doubt only increased. Then I said to myself, \u201cI can do this. I am doing it.\u201d That affirmation lasted for another two feet. My friend provided some good coaching and constant encouragement from below. I made it a few more feet only to be stopped, not seeing any way to go farther. I tried my friend\u2019s suggestion of a route to the right. But it\u00a0didn’t\u00a0work. By then it was close to sundown, and it seemed that time was running out. I told myself, \u201cI\u2019ll return another day.\u201d From below my friend shouted, \u201cJust relax; let the harness and rope support you.\u201d<\/strong> Automatically, I thought, \u201cThink Chuck.\u201d Then suddenly I thought, \u201cNo, don\u2019t think. Just listen. There is nothing to figure out. Just listen and trust.\u201d<\/strong> With calm and deep listening, I scanned the rock columns and repeated to myself, \u201cHow ever long it takes, I will stay here until I hear the way.\u201d<\/strong> Then, off to the left\u2014opposite the route my friend had suggested\u2014it seemed as if the rocks were calling me. Trusting what I heard,<\/strong> I moved to the left across the rock columns. Slowly I ascended to the top. The new route worked! My friend\u2019s coaching and support was crucial. Yet, in the end, I had to listen and trust my own heart.<\/strong> There is nothing to figure out. Listen to that still, quiet voice; trust; and turn insight into action.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometime ago I accepted an invitation to go rock-climbing with a friend, an experienced climber. It was my first climb and something I had wanted to do for years. The experience turned out to be much more challenging than I had imagined. My objective was simply to reach the top. I had barely begun when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}