"Re-Walk"

41 year-old Radi Kaiof, an Israeli veteran, is paralyzed from an accident in1988. The paratrooper has not walked in twenty years. On Monday of this week he took his first steps since the accident. Strapped to an apparatus called the “Rewalk” – a battery powered exoskeleton – the soldier experienced life upright again. The Rewalk gives the user control with a remote attached at the wrist.Crutches aid with balance as the paralytic leans forward. The contraption helps a person of paralysis stand, walk, and climb stairs. Muscle and lung activity in the upright position strengthen the user’s overall health. However, “It’s not just about health, it’s also about dignity,” assures the inventor of the Rewalk, Emit Goffer. Radi agreed: “Only when standing up can I feel how tall I really am and speak to people eye to eye, not from below.”While the invention is Goffer’s brainchild, he doesn’t know what it is like to walk with it. He, himself, is a paraplegic but still does not have enough mobility in his arms or hands to control the instrument panel! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26391953/)
There are times in our lives when we are forced to function by the support of external mobility. We do not have it in our power to coordinate activity for our own good. We must learn to trust, to lean into, the proper support systems. We are braced by intentional motion and accountable direction. Love the church. She is present in your life, not for the sake of adding burden to your back, but mobility to your limbs. Be accountable to Christian fellowship. Yield to the practices. Trust the disciplines. Render yourself to the directions of Christian history that strengthen spiritual health and stamina: read scripture, pray, meditate, memorize, give, serve, show compassion…take up your cross - this is the framework of mobility our Lord has taught us to share.
- Tob Adams