Foot Folly

Psalm 37:23-24 -- "The Lord delights in the way of the man whose steps he has made firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand."

Leaving her heart-ache and misery behind her, at the age of 16 Ffyona Campbell walked through the door of her simple Scottish house in John O' Groates and simply kept on walking. 838 miles later in Land's End, she decided to keep on going and hopped the pond where she continued from New York to San Fransisco. A long walk, indeed - however deeply driven, she continued from Sidney Australia to Perth and then from Cape Town, South Africa to Tangiers, Morocco.

Still marching forward, she journeyed from Spain to Raleigh and became the youngest woman to have walked the entire globe. Skirting war-torn lands, closed boarders, and even a mine field at one point, Ffyona just kept putting one foot in front of the other. Walking twenty-five miles at a stretch, she never faltered in her motivation and developed an independent strength that kept her going, and going, and going. In her firm footsteps she didn't fall down to failure once. 

It might be said that Ffyona was literally running from all her troubles - but that is indeed what the Lord tells us to do. In the book of Psalms He even says that He's delighted in our foot-falls and will uphold us with His hands.

There are plenty of moments when our feet get tired, when our hearts ache for the struggle of fighting against human nature or we battle to avoid the land mines of a world that has turned it's back on God. But - if we rely on our Savior for strength, we will not fall to failure. Though we may seem to trip up from time to time, the Lord will uphold us. And like Ffyona Campbell, we may even discover joys along the way and learn to enjoy the journey.