Trevor is a man on the run. He’s got places to go and people to see. He’s “pushing the boulder slowly up the hill.” But he’s “starting to wonder if he has the strength or the will.” He’s a true success story on the job but in life he’s on the way to a heart attack. Forced to take vacation, he decides to “do the Camino” and add the 500 miles of the trip to his growing list of achievements. We all know the type. We may be the type. We like to blame life for our frenetic pace when the truth is, we wouldn’t know what to do if we actually slowed down and smelled the roses.

Jesus knows the type and shares this advice: Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,[a] yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! Trevor’s problem is that he’s running scared when he could be peacefully walking the way with his loving Savior. On the Camino, he has a powerful experience, like that of St. Paul, of the sun blinding his eyes. That turns out to be the moment he truly sees the life is not a race, its an opportunity to experience the marvels of God’s creation in the company of fellow travelers.

We should carefully watch ourselves and those “Trevor’s” around us. They may seem to be “running for fun,” when they are “just running scared.” Invite them to walk, not run, through this life we have been graciously given.

Pastor Andy