Article: Risky moves can bring out childlike faith.(Columns)(Column)

Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

ANTELOPE - While at a Young Life camp last May, I watched a little girl on a "ropes course" scamper up a 38-foot pole. On a tiny perch and, hardly hesitating, she sailed into the air in an attempt to grab a trapeze bar that was far beyond her reach.

Childlike faith, I thought, as she was lowered to the ground by a rope-and-pulley system connected to her harness. Just watching it churned my stomach with fear.

But now I'm back at Wildhorse Canyon, part of a father-son retreat on the old Rolls Royce-cruising grounds of the Bhagwan himself.

"Hey, Welch, ropes course tomorrow," says a father from Bend. ...

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