Hello Friends, family and Fellow Hikers,
It has been some time since I have written anything on my blog, Greetings of Love to you ALL.
My family and I have been walking along the Pony Express,The Oregon Trail, and The California Trail lately as we have been traveling across Nebraska. I have been enjoying the diversity of this state. We have walked through large metro cities, small town villages, along farming fields and also through the vast prairies and with each one comes a new since of life.
We recently toured a pioneer village of things from yesteryear and also toured Fort Kearney. While walking along the Oregon Trail and all of its vast prairies, one can not stop but to think of life back then.We have seen old windmills, old farms and homesteads where life once was.
We are just a family of three walking this for the Lord and these people were walking for their new lives. We have thorns and splinters to think of and camping spots, yet they had Indians, diseases, weather of all kinds, dust bowls and much more.I thank God that we have one another and we can walk and sing and stop and sit on a rubber mat to escape the thorns somewhat and the elements. The women back then walked miles in all the extremes of the elements and with small children or nursing babies. They had all sorts of life persecutions and we have none of this really. We walk for miles sometimes and only see large expensive harvesters, cattle, grain trucks flying up and down the roads to fast. They had Indian attacks, fires, measles, mumps, flu, not enough food and much more.We can walk and find a place to pitch our nice tent in safety or someone may invite us in for the night or we can get a hotel if one is around; wow, how blessed we are today. Yes, we may go without water for some time but they went without for days sometimes. Yes, we are blessed.
Walking in the footsteps of the past has made me realize how truly blessed we are. Today people are busy, busy chasing the dollar and forget about the ones before us who helped make this a civilized place to live and work. We should all stop and take time to remember those who came before us. We should take our children and grandchildren to museums and historicals sights and teach them life, true life. I think of those who walked the Oregon Trail and that led me to think of the Apostles way before them that walked many miles to better peoples lives with the Truth and Love. I just hope that our walk will be one that is full of truth and love for all we have met and all that we will meet.
So, I encourage you all to get outside and go visit one of many history sites we have here in the states or read a true account of history to someone today. You could just go walking in the footsteps of the past.
Thank you and Lord Bless You,
I Love You ALL,
GentleFir
