In my element

I just finished the Inca trail this week, and the hike was amazing! It has been a few years now since my last hike, and I forgot how much I love it! This time around, I got to see some beautiful Andes mountains and ruins in the whole trek, and the last day the trail ended at Machu Picchu. It was challenging, stretching, and often difficult or painful, but worth every bruise, cramp, strain on each step up etc.

There are 500 people on the trail daily, and I was often hiking in solitude, which was so great! It has always been a great time for me to think, pray, worship, and delight in God's creation. I think this hike was even more special to me as well because I don't get to get out into nature that often anymore.

It was a good time, and truly a highlight of my life!

A Thought

I don't know that there is an answer to this, but it stems from a conversation I had with my roommate this week on vacation..... One always hears the saying

"It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."

but I've recently thought about this, in light of singleness, contentment, waiting on God, and interest from the opposite sex...

Which is better: to not have anyone interested in you (and the discontentment that can come with that) or to have had someone interested in you, get excited about it, and then them decide they aren't interested after all.

I've been in both places. Neither are "fun" per say. And in both, you need to fall at the foot of the cross, and truly wait on God, and trust that He's got your life in His hands along with your love story that He'll write when it is best. I think when He shows me a great guy, I take the pen from there, at least mentally, and that really isn't trusting HIm, or letting Him write.