My fourteen month old has an ability to climb that defies reason.  Some of it is simple climbing while some is the ability to find ways to get where he wants.  Baskets, stools, toys, chairs, stools on benches (new today), balancing with toes on the arm of the rocking chair and hands on the counter (his favorite it seems) - the list seems endless.  He seems to have a driving need to be as high in the air as he can get.  On Monday, I rescued him from almost-on-top a stack of folding chairs leaning against the wall at church and today it was half way up my loom. I can't say much as he came by the climbing ability honestly. I delighted in sitting in trees as a kid.  It was a hide-out, a commanding view for what was happening, a refuge.

Now the real task comes not in teaching him when and what can be climbed, but in the right way to 'climb' in life.  To teach and train him to find what God wants more important than the world's idea of being 'on top' is the ultimate goal and with God's help we'll accomplish it.