On the boardwalk
Published 9:00 am Sunday, February 2, 2025
- PHOTO BY BRAD CAMPBELL A boardwalk on the Alabama Gulf Coast
Hi, all! Just a thought.
When a person visits the beach, such as the Gulf Coast, he or she could likely see one of these wooden sidewalks. Of course, a wooden walkway such as the one in my picture here on the Alabama coast, is known as a boardwalk. Very simply, it is a walkway made of boards.
Because of the difficulty of walking upon the loose sand, and also because of the ongoing preservation of the sand dunes and grasses, these boardwalks provide easy access to the water’s edge without causing any undue harm to the environment or making for problematic walking on the sand’s unstable surface. Someone with limited mobility could manage a trek along the boardwalk much easier than a walk in the sand. Stability is a wonderful thing when we are uneasy.
The familiar Bible story of the man who built his house upon the sand reminds us that the house built upon the rock, the stable surface, was much stronger and much more able to withstand life’s storms and shifting sands.
The boardwalk doesn’t take away the difficulty or perhaps even some danger of walking across those hot shifting sands, but it provides a much easier way to cross those same difficult areas while walking above them.
Perhaps you are one of the many who prayed for a much easier 2025 than the experiences you had in the past year. Perhaps you are one who have dreamed of better days than those you’ve been having. As you pray for the Lord to take away those difficulties and problems, be aware of the very real possibility that He, in His infinite wisdom, may never remove those shifting sands from your life. He may, however, be providing a much easier walk across those same sands by giving you His boardwalk.
The thing about those boardwalks is that they are only sparsely created. You may have to trudge through some tough sandy areas before you get to the boardwalk. Don’t give up. When you get there, you will find the walk much easier. Walk along, looking down upon those same difficult areas of life you’ve just walked through, and take your trek out to the edge of His Living Water, where the refreshment makes it ALL worthwhile.
Praying you reach the boardwalk this week.
Just a thought. ’Til later.
Brad Campbell can be reached at mastah.pastah@yahoo.com.