Climbing Life's Mountains

What do you do when you get to the end of the Bible? You start again! There are 1189 chapters in the Bible. By reading 5 chapters a week, we read 260 chapters a year. So it takes 4 1/2 years to finish. It took our church that long to read the entire Bible together the first time around and now Mike and I are joining in from the beginning as we start reading it together again. Even though I’ve read the Bible in its entirety before, I feel like I’m reading it for the first time because I’ve learned so much in the last year. First I want to say, if you are a Christian and you don’t desire to know God through the study of His word, why not? Do you really know God? Are you really a Christian or do you just think you are? If you are a Christian, your journey through the Bible has probably been a lot like mine. I want to share a few things, for lack of a better way to say it, that I’ve changed my mind on when it comes to understanding the word of God.  There are seven points — the nu...

     My purpose in this life is always to glorify God. I fail at it every day (because I’m a sinner saved by grace), but I keep trying. As some of you may have noticed, I took a break from Facebook for about 30 days. It had gotten to a point that I found myself over sharing and over commenting. I allowed the rhetoric about riots, politics, COVID, masks/no masks, BLM, and so much more to get to me. It got to a point that I knew I had to break free for awhile.       I enjoyed my time away and I came to the conclusion that 400+ Facebook friends do not need to know my business. I’m back on but I hope I’ve learned a few things. The past 30 days have been good. I don’t feel as attached to my phone as I was before and I’m not constantly checking it for FB notifications. I moved the FB app from my home screen to the next screen over so it’s not the first thing I see. I feel like my mind is clearer and I’m more focused. I’ve read several good books this p...

Mike and I are no strangers to campgrounds. My mom and dad had a camper, starting with a small pop up and getting bigger with each purchase. When we moved away from our hometown, my parents drove their camper to make those long 10-11 hour drives. They enjoyed having their own space rather than staying with us and we would visit them at the local KOA Campground. Mike’s mom and stepdad had a camper as well and left it set up at a local campground. The kids have great memories of staying with them during the summer months and enjoying time at Delaney Park.  When Covid19 cancelled our vacation plans this summer, I started with the idea of renting a camper for a vacation. I checked with a rental place and they didn’t have any available for the week we needed. I then started looking at RVShare and realized that although we had a hitch on our suv, we didn’t have the hitch and brake needed to pull a camper. As the idea grew, we began looking online out of curiosity at smal...