This past weekend my family went on a hike at Cedar Breaks. We got to the end of one of the hikes and Ashly and Jesse decided to go on an additional trail to another point not too far out. We could see most of the trail and we could even see some people out on that trail. Well they headed down the mountain a bit to get onto this new trail. At one point we looked down and could tell that they had lost the trail - not a super bad "lost" - but still they were searching a bit. From our vantage point up higher we could see where they needed to go so we pointed to let them know. This made me think of two things:
Another moment on this hike happened to all of us at about the 1/2 way point out. We were at Spectra Point and we saw where Ramparts Overlook was. We could see where we were going, and we could see that it was going to be somewhat of a climb up when we headed back, but we thought it looked doable in the time we had, with the supplies that we had. We checked our water and took off. What we couldn't see completely is where the trail really went. We did indeed see part of the trail, BUT we did NOT see that it went down all of the way into the bottom of that part of the canyon. As we kept going down we realized that it was most definitely going to be harder on the return trip. (2 miles of incline) However, the trip out to the overlook was super cool with so much to see, the overlook was awe inspiring, and when we got back up to the top we definitely felt a sense of accomplishment because it was harder than we thought it would be when we set out! And we had enough water. I think this is also a part of life. We knew where our journey here on earth was going to lead us to, but we didn't necessarily know the hardships that we might face. We knew/know that we get to live with Heavenly Father and our families again. We may not know exactly what the path looks like for our own individual journey, but if we keep our sights set on the destination and we check our "preparedness" we can see amazing things along the way, and the joy at the end will be great.
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