I am so blessed. I’ve already told you our son, Sam came out for my retirement party and that we went to Michigan and spent time with our middle daughter, Amy and her family. This week, we had a fun visit from our oldest daughter, Hillary and her two girls. We took them camping – the girls’ very first camping trip! We went to the Sierra Madres above Encampment – my favorite mountains in the universe. We had a terrific time. Because of late Spring storms, there is more snow up there (altitude about 10,000 feet) than I have ever seen at this time of year. Our goal was to take them on the four-wheelers up to Bridger Peak and also down another road to Silver Lake. Good luck with that!
After we set up camp, Hillary and I, with one girl on the back of each ATV, left to take a run up to the Peak before it got dark. We made it about a quarter mile before we got one of the bikes stuck in the snow. We high centered it and no amount of girl-power or winch power could get us out. We ended up using the other bike to go get Karl and a shovel. With his help we were out. We had a great time for the next two days – and we are all now really good at winching ourselves out of snowdrifts. We never made it to Bridger Peak. We did make it down to Silver Lake – and it was stunningly beautiful.
I know there’s a lesson here for me. I wanted to sit on Bridger Peak and show the girls how amazing the view is. I was prevented from doing that because of the (snowy) obstacles in the way. But- we had a great time on the journey. We laughed, saw three deer, ate s’mores for breakfast, played triominoes and Uno and ladder ball. I watched as my granddaughters learned to shoot a slingshot and throw a knife and skip a rock in the lake, and was proud that they learned how to drive the four-wheelers. It was a fun, relaxing, successful trip even though we never attained MY goal!
I do get it, Lord, even when I fret. It is the journey that matters, the one step after another that we can celebrate.
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