LIVE A LIFE OF NO REGRETS!!: Our Next Adventure: Alaska!

Quote from "Stepping Heavenward" by Mrs. E. Prentiss

"She says I shall now have one mouth more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music and drawing.

Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other.

Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which dwells is worthy of all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other dear darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, wondrously blest!"

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Our Next Adventure: Alaska!

I haven't written in a very long time. I've thought of a gazillion subjects to write about while "gone" from the blogosphere but couldn't find or make the time to actually sit and write. However, after many requests from family and friends, I'm back! Many have asked for me to begin journaling our adventures. It seemed selfish at first, but if it gives somebody else the itch to go and see the wonders of creation it will be totally worth it.

From last camping trip

What I want to share most with my friends and family is to tell of the goodness of our Lord Jesus. I want to tell you that He has been so very faithful to me since Rusty passed. How I was concerned about being alone and found the following to be so true: We are never alone in Christ. He is faithful and true. It's not just a sappy saying to make somebody feel good. It's His true nature, and it's real!! And in the grief of no longer walking with Rusty this side of heaven, I've still been able to walk in joy, laugh with my friends and children, dream big dreams, and dare to go on adventures to discover the beautiful creation around the world. It's also fun to meet folks along the way and hear a bit of their stories.

Hiking the Augusta Canal

And the next adventure will begin in 5 days! It's one of my biggest undertakings yet. We will be traveling from Georgia to Alaska and back. We are wrapping up the few states we are missing besides Hawaii. My crazy adventures began two years after Rusty passed, and I spend lots of time evenings and weekends planning and dreaming of what we will see and do. After months of planning, I feel like this is one of my best planned trips yet.

So please, come along with us. I'd like to share how I come up with our crazy ideas, how we travel fairly cheap, what we eat and the list of dishes we are going to try in each state, where we hike, what animals we see, and so much more. Until tomorrow, Michelle