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Stairwell

The stairwell of life has a beginning and an end. Between is full of many steps and every person’s stairwell is a different length, style and shape.  Some are an easy climb while others are steep.  Stairs are the many people and experiences that come in your life.  These stairs provide a solid footing, that by spending time with them, they better you. They spend a moment of your life boost you up and often travel up to next step with you. Each step comes in different sizes, shapes and stability. Our first steps are our parents. These are the big steps that carry us when our own little feet can barely walk.  Our next steps are our siblings and friends.  Classmates and co-workers make up the next set. Each set of steps helps us grow to who we are today and what we will become. Now every step isn’t a good solid one. On our upward climb we will encounter a few steps that are warped, knotted or rotten. These steps you have to step back or move quickly forward as these will cause you to stumble or eventually fall. Even with these bad stairs you can grow from if you allow. So every stair good or bad has the potential to raise you to the next level. The stairwell of life will bring you joy and tears, success and failure. When you get to the end oh the stories you will be able to tell.

Now if stairs are people, well then you too are a stair.  You are a stair for someone else, perhaps many people. As a stair you have the responsibility to make a difference.  You can chose to be a positive step or you can chose to be a weak, warped or faltering stair. With this responsibility you endure the consequences of your actions of being a stair and those consequences can be positive or negative on your own climb.  So let us become good solid stairs, full of integrity, trustworthiness, honesty, confidence and understanding.  Chose to be that stair to lift others up, to help others grow and to be a positive influence. Remember this also those stairs that you help build might just become your stair. 

Now I have shared with you the truth of the stairwell of life, but I have one more point to add.  Your stairwell is made up of many stairs and you’re only on that stair for a short time. Friends come and go, family moves on and so do we. The one thing that remains the same throughout the stairway is the railing. Whether we chose to lean on the railing or not, it remains at our side each step of the way. This railing is God who goes from bottom to top, beginning to end. The railing stays with you your entire life and when the stairs are unstable, God is there and all you need to do is reach out. Grab a firm hold of the railing in good times or bad so that your steps will be stable and firm every step of the way.

I want to thank all who have been my stairs in the past, now and those yet to be, and God who has been my railing through my stairwell of life.

May you be inspired, uplifted and spiritually refreshed …… Please share if this has touched you or you feel led to inspire others….