climbing the waterfall

Adventures in      Lessons,

                     Insights,

                     Frank

                     Evaluations

Adventures in life.  Adventures in babysitting.  Adventures in auditioning.  Adventures in class.  Adventures on the streets of New York.  Adventures in serving tables.

Fun stuff.  This is my life. 

Picture a beautiful waterfall.  Not one of those waterfalls that trickles.  No, not a wussy waterfall.  This is a tall waterfall off the side of a very steep, rugged cliff.  A waterfall that you can stand under, but would knock you out if you stood under it for too long.  There’s a spot between the water and the cliff on the ground that is the best view of all.  You get a shot of the back of the waterfall with just a nice consistent spray on your face, that’s just enough to cool you off . . . not enough to soak you.  Now, this waterfall is picture perfect at all times of the day.  It changes colors with the sunrise, and new colors with the sunset.  At almost every time of day, at some angle you can see a rainbow.  Sometimes a few from different angles all at once, and at even more exciting times you can see a double rainbow.

Now, picture this.  A determined girl puts on hiking gear.  She puts on hiking shoes, she expects a wet one, so she puts on a poncho, brings her umbrella that attaches to her head. Clearly she needs her hands free.  She has decided that her hike of choice will not be up a mountain, but  . . . wait for it . . . up the WATERFALL.  Yes.  She is determined.  Will she make it?

Well, I do venture to say there will be many times when she falls on her tookis.  Chances are, she’s going to get exhausted.  She might perhaps need a little supernatural help from time to time.  No doubt, she’ll get discouraged.  No doubt she’ll fall down and want to give up.  But, she’s decided she’s not stopping until she’s up that blasted waterfall.  She doesn’t just want to see it from the back or from afar.  She doesn’t care that traditionally you don’t “climb waterfalls.”  This will be an adventure.  I don’t know if fun or blissful would be the words used to describe this adventure, but I would say rewarding would be.

This is my adventure.  Not blissful.  Not easy.  Not glamorous. Worth it.  I’m climbing the waterfall of life, and there’s no way I can do it on my own. 

In the same way that the water has no ability to form colors without the sun, spray your face the perfect amount from behind, create double rainbows, or do anything or be anything by itself, that’s the same way I intend on climbing this thing.  The ONE who creates the rainbows will get me where I’m going one slip step at a time.