Miles 2.2 miles June 4, 2013

   To please Bill I decided to walk all the campsites and see how far they were going around all of them. As always I was in search of the wow of God’s creation and really wasn't expecting to find it just walking around the camp ground. But as usual God had other things in mind. I found butterflies and just beautiful blue skies. It was just a great time to spend thinking about scripture I had read that morning. Remember this whole thing started with wanting to walk with God and if I couldn't do that than just quit. I was thinking on the Eph. 6 scripture of putting on the full armor of God. It accrued to me that lately I had forgotten this very important fact. To remember this life is short and it is a continual battle and without armor and not just any armor, we will feel on the losing end of life. The last month or so I have been dealing with some real battles that it seems God has so much to teach me in this training session. Mostly what love is and should be. To love someone for my own self-satisfaction is not the love of the kind God was talking about. Unmerited and expecting nothing for our effort is the Gods kind of love. How do we learn this, by using Jesus as an example? Jesus loves us with our complete future being his complete concern. Not just love that benefit’s him but love that never changes even when it is not returned. So this was some of my quite time with the Lord that I was thinking on in my walk through the campgrounds and am so blessed to be here and having the privilege to spend this month with him.

Total   216.4

Goal for now 500

My Walk With God June 3, 2013

Miles    2.2 June 3, 2013

Total    214.2

Now it was off for my first App. hike at Raccoon Park.  I picked trail four and was on my way with backpack, walking stick, camera and hoping for God to wow me with His wonder. Of course he did. This trail, for me was 2.1 miles long, I say for me because I got lost and found my own route home. It was a very nice day for the walk (about 70 degrees). I wanted to see some geological rock layering and did find them. The reason was not that I had not seen these in this park before. But with a new perspective I had learned in a fun book about taking Gods word literal, especially Genesis. Believing in Gods literal 6 days of creation and a literal worldwide flood it would be very logical that much of this rock layering was caused from the world wide flood and sediment being quickly laid down, then huge changes in climate causing more local floods and earth quakes. Top it off with a huge ice age being caused by cooling of ocean waters after these waters have been belched from the deep and being most likely very hot, and what I am looking at in these rocks are fingerprints of Gods Judgment of sinful man. Those who do not believe in his wrath and judgment can walk up to these rock formations and feel it for yourself. I am just saying this if you believe Genesis is truly Gods word ( read Answer in Genesis).

 

It felt good being in Raccoon Park and continuing my Appalachian Trail Walk. Also to my most private time with God.

Goal for now 500

Walk with God April 16, 2013

Miles    4miles April 16

Spring flowers at Williams park is always fun for me. Actually spring anywhere is just fun time. But as these walks have given me a closer look at the transition nature takes from a barren woods to the slow return of life and green and to top it off the rush for these beautiful wildflowers to show their beauty before they are rob of the sun from the towering trees around them. They show off their beauty whether they are every appreciated by anyone but maybe their creator.

It feels great to be walking again. I am hoping it will continue . My time at Raccoon Park as Camp Host I hope to bring me the chance to spend more time in the woods.

Goal is 500 miles

My Walk With God April 12, 2013

Miles 3 miles April 12 2013 

Total  208  

Spring flowers at Williams Park just popping up and I am feeling the satisfaction of completing the four season while walking. This goal is beyond what I would have thought the Appalachian Trail could have brought me. For me it has brought me full circle of seeing the wonder of Gods fingerprint from just were I was planted, Brownsburg In.

I started in Aug of 2012 and enjoyed watching the slow transition of beautiful green to picture perfect golden yellow of William Park. Next we were privileged to have a beautiful winter and toping it off enjoying the wonder of a woods full of a wide variety of wildflowers. To start this walk I wasn’t sure where it would lead me. But 208 miles later it has been a great experience. Who knows what God will share with me before I complete 500 miles



Goal 500 miles