How to Avoid Getting Stuck in Life’s Failures
Day 30: Beware of Making Sharp Turns on Your Spiritual Path
Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil. (Proverbs 4:27 NIV)
The day after paddling with my uncle at Watts Bar Lake, we headed to downtown Knoxville to try out the hydro bikes at the local paddle shop.
Hydro bikes are something I’ve never done before, so I was very excited to try something new on the water.
These contraptions look like actual bikes from the pedals up, but instead of wheels they have a similar feature on the left and the right as do the amphibious airplanes that land on water. This is what keeps them stable and afloat in the water.
In the front where the front wheel would be on a land bike is a front rudder. The handle bars are what turn the rudder so you can control the direction of the bike.
The guy who was working at the paddle shop told us not to turn the handle bars sharper than 45 degrees or else the rudder would be turned sideways, and we’d just be wasting energy pedaling and getting nowhere (much like if you turn the handlebars too sharp on a regular bike).
