Jen and Tui and I set up to meet at Oregon Ridge to walk before one of my morning meetings. Of course it was pouring down rain. Of course we were not going to cancel. We'd waited too long to get together! You'd think this would mean we had the trails to ourselves--but don't ever underestimate elderly Korean people. They walk rain or shine, too. They just come prepared with really big umbrellas.
"There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing." - Sir Rannulph Fiennes
Fortunately, my work colleagues simply laughed off my sodden appearance at our meeting.
I love walking in the woods. Our girls are in an I-hate-walking-in-the-woods phase, unfortunately. I am fully trusting that this, like so many other phases, will pass. So I dragged them out to Gunpowder State Park before AWANA a couple weeks ago. Nothing gets rid of an anti-hiking phase like being made to hike, I say! I even packed a picnic dinner.
We sat watching the river, drinking hot chocolate and eating hard boiled eggs and apples. (The menu likely doesn't help the lack of enthusiasm for my woodsy adventures.) It was actually quite chilly and their hands were really cold.
I wonder if Evelyn will ever outgrow her dislike of being photographed?
Hmm...not there yet. :)
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But I still think they're beautiful. And fun. And funny. And budding adults. They will be taking their own hikes--or not taking them--and packing their own picnics. May they breathe and eat beauty, and seek its Maker.
"Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." - Walt Whitman
"Seek Him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: the LORD is His name." (Amos 5:8)
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