Step by Step
When I get started talking about hiking I find it hard to stop. Maybe it’s because it is so poetic and so metaphoric. Today, my legs are aching as they recover from a 500 foot hike up the Alpine Ridge long route 9W Palisades’. W e scrambled and a new friend was kind enough to snap a few shots to show how difficult this path was. After 2& ½ hours of up & down we finally got to the water fall and had to scale what felt like straight up. The muscles between my toes are sore. Can you imagine? But it was so beautiful and so helpful.
I went into the hike disappointed in many aspects of my life. Things & People have a way of letting you down sometimes. The economy is struggling; politicians are biting our new President and students@ Notre Dame are protesting because he is pro-abortion. Friends I thought would be there for me are not, & there are 2 family members who have behaved so atrociously that I found myself judging them and shuddering when I even think of them.
That was my frame of mind going in… half way up step by step as we scrambled over boulders and under fallen trees I felt my hard heart soften. The friends I was with were gentle with me and my mind holds their smiles as the trophies for the day. I was reminded what a privilege it is to be a person here on this beautiful planet. To witness the life God has given us and to deal with all of It Step by Step. There is so much more I could say but I will leave it there for now. The message is thumping in my muscles
3 comments:
nice jo im testing it ok
love the pictures
Thanks jackie
Glad you have access to it !
I am so amazed that you actually braved the rocks over there on the Palisades. I have admired them so often and never really touched them. We lived close to there for years and I didn't know you could hike over there. The first time I went to Concordia to play a tourney. The rocks struck me as so beautiful, I have loved them ever since. Thanks JO.
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