Why is this blog called sledding backwards?

This is why, excerpted from Sara's March 4th, 2009 post on her personal blog, and slighted edited to update it :o)

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Monday, after a large snowfall here in Maryland, a good friend [later acknowledged to be Jon] of mine and I went sledding. [this also happened to be the same night Jon asked me (Sara) on a date after we finished sledding, however I digress]

I haven't been sledding in a while, so I was particularly excited about this jaunt. We got our sleds, hiked to the hill (the campus may or may not have been open to the public...), and down we went! First I tried going just sitting, which was fun enough. However the toboggan lended itself much more towards laying on one's belly, and that was fun too.

I thought this would be the extent of my sledding forays, however my friend had the brilliant idea to go sledding... backwards. Namely, putting one's back on the sled, and plummeting head first down the hill, with no idea where one is going.

Now, this doesn't seem to be that terrible, however I could clearly see how many kids had purposefully built hills all over the hill to jump off on. If I went backwards - I may send myself plummeting towards certain discomfort. It seemed less than logical, and potentially miserable, however I could not think of a good reason not to try it out.

So I did, with some fear and trembling. And let me tell you - it was a BLAST! When you lay on your back you can see the stars whizzing above your head and the wind rushing over your face. You aren't troubled with thoughts about steering your sled or where you are going. You really can just lay back and enjoy the ride. Or you can ruin the whole experience by worrying about where you are going. Your call.

I think life is a lot like this. While I know a lot of times I begin fretting about the future, where I am going, where I am headed - I think God just calls us to lay back, enjoy his creation, and trust that He is taking us wither we need to go. So we can stifle ourselves with worry, or giggle with glee even during the crash landing at the end. Our call.

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So that's what we are doing here. We don't know what the future holds, but we look forward to discovering it, carefree, in the knowledge that the One whose creation is whizzing by will bring us toward a gleeful ending...