It’s nice to meet you! My name is Brendon, but most people know me as “Doobs”. I’ve been climbing consistently for two years in South Florida.

We all remember our first “mountain.” For me, it was a 5.6 where every jug felt like a lifeline and every V0 sent tremors through my marrow (though, for those that know me – V0s still do). It was there, in the “shakes” and in the struggle, that I found the beauty of the waiting season. In climbing, as in faith, there is no shortcut to the summit. You wait. You train. You climb. You fail. You wait again. You train again. You climb again. Sometimes, you fail again; other times, your finally reach the summit or flash that V0. In the process is a beautiful story of persistence. Three sessions into my journey, the Word opened to Isaiah 40:31. It was a mechanical truth for the soul: Wait. I realized then that the strength required for the crux isn’t something we manufacture. It is something we inherit when we finally stop rushing and start trusting the journey. Climbing became an exercise in faith and an opportunity to evangelize.

So, I started an Instagram page which you can follow my own journey in a sea of thousands more. As I followed others’ journeys, I took a look at my own. I saw a thousand symbols of the cosmos and the “spirit of nature” and witty “I peed in the bushes today”… but I found a void where the Almighty Creator should be. I saw climbers reaching for the heights – and even landing them, but missing that which anchors us in spiritual strength. A year and change later, Eternity Climbing was born from that silence. It is “faithletics” for the vertical world, a beacon of hope for those who want to evangelize with their hands on the stone. We don’t just climb for the view; we climb to get closer to the One who set the mountains in their places.

So, my friend – whether you are staring down a 5.7 or a season of life that feels like a sheer face with no holds, the mission is the same: Wait on God. Trust the struggle. Find your strength in the Crux. Welcome to Eternity Climbing. Seguimos subiendo, siempre.