“Go Big or Go Home.” This is one of Emilie’s favorite
sayings on The World Race, so we decided to make it the theme for her birthday
today. She had about 10 different
choices to make in which she could decide to go big or go home.
The main choice was to go to the park and do
some exercises with the old people or go for an adventure. Thankfully she chose the adventure which
entailed a taxi ride to the base of a mountain.
The weather was beautiful for our steep chair lift ride up the
mountain. I really enjoyed the fresh
air, beautiful trees, flowers, and even the sound of the chair lift.
The squeaking of the wheels was a familiar
sound of home and fun times. At the top
of the mountain we looked out over a spectacular view of strange mountain
formations. The land is flat then mounds
of mountains come up out of no where to form mountains.
A student had told us that there is an
ancient Chinese story that says at one time the land was covered with
oceans. From the shape of the mountains
that would make sense and it seems to go with the story of the flood too. We played around taking pictures and enjoying
the view before we headed halfway down the mountain.
At the halfway point we climbed off the
chairlift and grabbed sleds to ride on the slideway or alpine slide. The track curved down the rest of the
mountain. I planned not to use my
brakes, but the track was so fast that I had to.
After dinner this evening we talked about how we think the
Lord is blessing us for the year we have put in. It is not easy for me to feel like we are
doing enough here as we prayer walk and prayer as a group. But, I do think that this time is a gift and
I may never have so much time to spend in the word and in prayers.
