Jim Ramos

The Climb Jim Ramos

To climb is to fight resistance. This takes passion, strength, and perseverance. Failing to battle the forces that weigh us down results in apathy, weakness, and attrition. Apathy is simply a loss of feeling. The Bible calls this callousness. Calluses form when something loses its ability to resist friction, as seen on the hardened hands of a construction worker. But when a man refuses to resist the forces that press against him, the callus forms over his heart. He becomes indifferent to the causes and people he should care deeply about. He becomes hardened and unfeeling. He becomes calloused. A defining moment comes when a man wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and decides to fight the forces trying to push him down and commits, once again, to climb the mountain of manhood one painful step at a time.