Runaway lanes

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Published on Thursday, April 28, 2016

By Rev. Glenna Beauchamp

Rivers and Oak River United Churches

When you drive through the Rocky Mountains, you see signs that there is a runaway ramp coming up. This is a one-track road that doesn’t go anywhere except off the main road and partway up the mountain at a very steep grade. Its purpose is to help big trucks slow down because sometimes a semi’s brakes fail and without the help of a runaway ramp, it would crash.

Sometimes we need a kind of runaway ramp to slow down our lives. When the usual “breaks” don’t work, when we can’t shut off the chatter racing through our minds, when our calendars rule our lives, when it feels like we’re spinning out of control, God invites us to get off the main road and onto His “runaway ramp” that takes us to a place “beside still waters.”

Our Good Shepherd leads us to a place where we can just be. Where we can hear His voice, assuring us we are deeply loved and cherished by our Creator, even if we never do another thing. God loves us for who we are — His child.