RiverStones Coaching

The Story Behind... River Stones

When I was a boy, my family spent many weekends camping in the beautiful mountains of North Georgia. Most often, we would park our camper beside a river so we could hear that peaceful rushing water sound, chill our watermelons in the freezing cold water, and most importantly, fish for trout.

Camping anywhere in the mountains is great, but camping by a river is best of all. If you've never had the pleasure of hearing gurgling mountain river water as you sit by a fire, and then later in the night as you go to sleep, you're truly missing out on one of life's greatest pleasures!

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Though camping was great fun most of the time, there were some dull hours here and there that adults seemed to enjoy more than the kids. So one day I fought off boredom by inventing a game. I called it "stone-hopping."

The point of the game was to get from one side of the river to the other side by hopping from one stone to the next without getting wet. Now, you can't play this game in all rivers of course, but most mountain rivers are filled with enough stones and boulders that it's actually possible.

It was challenging at times. A lot of those stones were slippery, so just because you jumped and landed on a stone didn't mean you were staying on it. One slip and you'd find yourself laying in ice-cold water! And of course, if that happened, you lost the game,..and your pride.

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So fast-forward to present-day, and for some reason those stone-hopping memories came to mind as I was thinking about what to name my Life Coaching practice. I settled on: River Stones. I immediately thought it was perfect because it's a great picture of what our lives feel like sometime as we try to get from Point A to Point B: we can't travel that distance with one big jump, but we can get there hopping from one stone to the next. We take it one stone at a time, until we look up and realize that we're....there.

What does the river look like that you are trying to cross, especially spiritually? Is it a river of fear, doubt, hurt, unbelief, confusion? Does it feel like one big chasm between you and God that can never be crossed?

I'm here to tell you it can be crossed, if you take it "one stone at a time." I would enjoy the opportunity to stone-hop with you.

Reach out to me, and let's plot our course!

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