I started out on an early morning walk. I so love to walk when I’m on vacation and get to see the wonderful sites around me. This early morning I walked up the hill so I could walk back down on the way back but then I saw a sign that said Bass Lake. I had been so yearning for a lake that I was willing to walk straight down hill when I really wanted and easy way back. About ½ a mile down I see a trail that said Bass Lake this way so off I went again. I kept walking and walking and knew that I had walked past my hotel if I were on top of the mountain so figured that if I kept walking I would be able to find a path that would take me back up there so I wouldn’t have to walk all the way back on the trail and up the steep hill I had come down. .
The lake was awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed walking by it. I thought it would be a little lake but found more and more of it. I finally finished the lake and knew I’d walked over a mile in so now I didn’t want to walk all of the way back to where I caught the trail and then directly back up the steep road another ½ mile. I thought it would be easier to just walk right up the mountain even though I didn’t see a trail. I learned many lessons walking up the mountain.
I first saw some bushes that weren’t too deep and so up I started. When I got to the end of the bushes I see that the hill is full of loose rock which isn’t very conducive to walking up since I kept sliding down. I knew there was a way up so I put my feet at the base of a tree and then looked for the next bush branch or tree to hang on to so that I could get another foothold. I tried some huge dead branches but most of them broke off. There were little branches that were green and growing which held my weight and help me crawl up to the next tree. I found it quite interesting that the little new green bushes/branches would hold my weight though the big dead ones just broke off. I found it was about searching for new nourished growing things young or old that would give me the strength to pull myself up to the next secure tree. Just like people that are growing can feed me the knowledge that I seek to climb to a higher place in my own growth.
I next discovered that there was always a way if I looked for it. There was one point where I thought this is too difficult and then I looked back down the mountain and saw that I’d come so much further than I had thought I had. I knew then that there was no way that I would or could make it back down the mountain and it was a lot easier to continue up than to go back down. Immediately things got easier and I could now easily see where my next young branch was and how I was going to make it up the mountain. I saw that as soon as my thinking changed and I could see that I was climbing up the mountain. It became so much easier. It didn’t mean that I didn’t slip but that wasn’t my focus any more my focus with how not if I could. It felt so much better to know that I could instead of thinking I couldn’t. I found my thinking interesting. When I didn’t think I could do it, I found it so much harder to do but when I knew that I could and would then it became easier and simpler. I so see how I thinketh so am I.
The next part became even easier when I actually saw the top and now I was on all fours getting to the top as quickly as possible. I was tired of this journey and knew that I could finish the hike very quickly and did. I didn’t care that there was a man in his yard on his cell phone and I’m sure didn’t understand why I was in his back yard. I went right on through and found my way back to my hotel. It was interesting how I learned so many lessons 2 hours.
May all of my walks be so productive though I’d rather the lessons be easier than this one was.
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