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Four Pounds

Published on Sunday, 10 October 2010

"There's only four pounds of pressure in the tires," Steve said.  It was our first full day in Alaska, and we were leaving for an all-day ATV trip through the Alaskan backwoods to a glacier.

Steve explained that having only four pounds of pressure in the tires helped the tires to bounce over rocks, logs and hills without the tire being damaged. Since the ATV sat on the tires and we sat on the ATV, the four pounds helped keep us from being damaged.  For six hours we bounced over rocks, drove through rivers and streams, and bounced over hills. I understood the four-pound principle the rough way.

As people, we need four pounds.  Life comes at you hard. Rocky stuff, hilly stuff, stuff that nearly drowns you and takes your breath away often faces you on this journey. We need four pounds.

We are often overinflated.  We are puffed up, stiff necked and stuck up. When a rock or hard experience gets in our path, instead of giving and easily rolling over it, we hit it like we have iron instead of four pound tires.

The resulting impact shatters us.  Much of our psychological pain is due to wounds to our ego.

It was one of the greatest and most thrilling adventures that I'd ever experienced. I would not have made it overinflated.  Perhaps to rise higher, we need to let some of the air out.

~A MountainWings Original~      www.mountainwings.com

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