Friends, this is Morgan Snyder, and welcome back to another episode of the

Ransom Heart Podcast. It's an honor and it's a privilege to be with you today.

A couple of weeks ago I found myself on Mother's Day

with my wife Sherry and our kiddos heading off on a bike ride. It was a beautiful

spring, Colorado, pre-summer day and we were blasting down a

hill and something caught me out of a corner of my eye and it was a sign handwritten scratched piece of cardboard on the sidewalk that said free bike jumps

And right after that I caught a couple of bags of mulch and a really rough piece of plywood clearly

taken out of someone's garage and right past the bike jump was a group of

young precious kids probably age five six seven

unfitting bike helmets and scooters and they were all smiles. The girls were dressed in their Sunday best for Mother's Day and what the boys lacked in teeth they made up for in bravado. These kids were glorious and I looked at this bike jump

and I immediately went to Napoleon dynamite and the thoughts of Pedro and the sledgehammer and the infamous bike jump.

If you know the scene you will enjoy just visiting that in your mind's eye.

So we were going down the hill and we were going on a longer bike ride and before we could even calculate it all we were gone and headed downtown, went for a picnic, played some volleyball, and hours later the four of us headed back and the kids were still there.

The bike jump was still there. The free bike jump sign was still there and

Joshua and I are in the lead,

and as I passed the bike jump, I just thought,

though I loved their invitation,

I thought about all the things that could go wrong.

I can just see going off this rickety jump and endowing and pulling a Napoleon.

I could see breaking their jump or ripping open the bags of mulch and ending up

spending the rest of my mother's day at Home Depot trying to replace a couple of

bags of suburban mulch and in my micro calculations I passed I biked by but then I heard something and I turned around to watch my bride launch herself off of this bike jump, the free bike jump, to the roar of the crowd of these little kids.

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