Daily Archives: January 28, 2006

I have really begun to appreciate Clementines, ‘cuz while in Korea we ate them a lot… now we buy these handy little cases of them, and this morning I enjoyed them at the top of the hill above the “village” I live in… it was the hightest point of this morning’s hike, so I sat on a fallen treee and enjoyed not one, but two (!) clementines… and as I sat, enjoying the view through the forest from the top of the hill to the mountains beyond… listening to some great music… I was struck by a thought about the music I listen to on these walks, the music is like a modern Psalm, drawing me to walk with Him, this is what the Psalmists did some of the time, write music which would draw the followers of God to Him…
…so stop for a while, listen to some music that draws you to Him, and enjoy a clementine!

I love to go for long walks in the woods near my house:

here is my walking stick… I fashioned it from a fallen branch last week…

I found it very helpful… like last Saturday when I lost the trail because of all the leaves and had to plod though the woods and use my excellent built in compass and sence of direction (no kidding) I discovered that I had to carefully work my way down a steep ravive that was covered in leaves… it was my walking stick that stabilized me through that ordeal…

like I said, I had lost the trail and knew that eventually the ridge I was walking would end up in another part of the “village” I live in and there would be no way out, other than walking through someone’s back yard, then I remembered a creek that ran under the road on community property… to get to this creek and back home (with out backtracking- – I HATE BACKTRACKING), I had to go down the hill… I was grateful for my walking stick, it saved the day!

Life is like a hike, there are times when we have to stop, evaluate if we are going in the right direction, look at the obstacles, and sometimes the best thing we can do is to turn around… even if it means going in a direction that we believe is right, yet has some very unknown aspects to it… sometimes we need to turn around and make a new path… and when the path is slippery, it is good to have a walking stick to give us stability… when our legs are tired, it is good to be able to use the walking stick to help us up a hill, or slow us down when we are going too fast down a ravine… Scripture is a great walking stick… but a walking stick will not help if you don’t use it… neither will Scripture…

Long live walking sticks!

… and that, fellow bloggers is why I’ve been woefully absent from blogdom: where I think aloud, write ideas and misspell words… this week I wanted to write about 20th century “classical” (-NOT) music, my walking stick, working too hard, the meaning of life, writing interims (few people who read this blog will understand this one… but those who do will shake their head in disbelief at the torture we go through, or at least nod knowingly at the pain and travail that this, which some call the bane of their existence, and I call proof of The Fall… oh – – I am going on aren’t I?) and clemintines… but alas, I had to write interims… but, I’m back… next up: my walking stick and thoughts on my weekly hike!