“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/pro.3.5-6.NIV
A little maintenance on an Indiana trail, before my big hike
My AT adventure for 2026 begins this week! I’ll probably just be posting at hostels or wherever I have time and signal. Hopefully each week, I’ll give you an update.
Thanks for following my adventures! I hope they inspire you to go out and have your own. I pray that your faith is strengthened and your hope is renewed.
Let’s go out and do big Kingdom business for God, whether this means at home sharing with your family and friends or at work or out in nature. Whenever you are, let your Light shine! To Him be all the glory!
Because God saved me and let me find Him, I can’t help but share the Good News! This will be what my post is about on Sunday nights. I’ll start with a portion of my testimony:
A search for Truth
So who’s stating facts and who is stretching the truth? Who is making up stories. Is that a lie? Did that really happen?
Those are my thoughts nowadays, with the news media. AI, and society in general. It boils down to who can you trust?
🚗 If you are like me, you want to know the truth so you can make good decisions. When buying a used car, for instance, you want to know its history- has it been in any wrecks? Has the transmission been overhauled? How old is it? How many miles on it? Etc. You want truthful answers so you can make the decision whether to buy or not. Is the car dealer truthful or is he just trying to make a sale? Can you trust this person? 🤔
When I was a teen, I began to do what teens do- question authority. Basically, I was a good kid. I tried to stay out of trouble and obey my parents. Some of my friends though, seemed to be doing some “ activities” that were questionable, and were not in line with what my parents taught me.
There were other things popping up too. (It was the ‘70s). Questions about society and morals, what is right and wrong and who decides. These things I began to ponder. How do my parents know they are right? Why do they do what they do and hold to their beliefs?
In my early grade school years, we were brought up in church. When I turned 10, however, we left the church and didn’t go back. I had been given a Bible when I was baptized there, but never read it.
My big question- Who can I trust? How do they know they are right? What’s the perfect way to do things? I was sure there was a wrong way and a right way. I just didn’t know where to find the answers.
God? I saw Him as a divine Being who lived in Heaven. I believe He created the earth 🌍 and had set it all in motion. Then He just parked up there and watched us on the earth- you know- Like a Star Trek episode of aliens watching how earthlings performed through struggles with little or no interference from them.
I also saw Him as a terror. I was afraid of Him- that if I did do wrong- disobey my parents, He would intervene with a ⚡️ lightning bolt!
I got brave one day. We were traveling as a family back from a camping trip out west. It was cold and rainy so we’re driving all day, headed back home. I was in the top of the pickup camper. My little sister was asleep. Dad and Mom were in the cab. I decided to speak to God! 😱I said, “ God, if you are real, I want to know it. If not, I will turn another way.”
Immediately I sensed His Presence. I was not afraid but responded as I sensed He was an overwhelming, perfect, unconditional LOVE. ❤️ This God I’d been afraid of and ignoring, was real! I yielded that moment to the most powerful Force in all the Heavens and the Earth- the Love of God, manifested to me- He became real. I knew He loved me just the way I was. I accepted this love. This revelation of God changed my life from that moment. Even the grass looked greener! 💚His love was on me- I saw people and loved people like never before. I had the capacity to forgive people. Wow! This was a new me.
That was the start of a new life. He gave me an insatiable desire to read that Bible 📖 that was at home on the shelf. He taught me through His Word about who He was and who I was in Him. I saw in the Word that this was the TRUTH I was searching. His Word is TRUTH. Jesus Christ is the way, the TRUTH, and the life. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of TRUTH!
💜If you want to know what is true, look to Him for the Answer. He has all the answers and He always tells the truth because He is TRUTH.
If you want to know God, this God of love who loves you so much He provided a way for you to have a real relationship with Him, you just need to ask Him. Ask Him to come into your heart. He can wash you and make you clean on the inside, just like you’ve never done anything wrong. He will fill you up with His Holy Spirit. By asking Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior, you are allowing Him to come inside you and do what He came to earth to do. He came to save us from this world of sin and death, hell and destruction. He actually had to die and shed His blood to do that. He did it just for you. You may not understand it all in your head, but your heart. Your heart is where you believe. When you believe in your heart that’s Jesus is Lord and say with your mouth Christ is risen from the dead, you will be saved. You will know the Truth. The Truth will set you free!
For more information about making the Lord your Savior and next steps, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. If you have a Pastor, you can talk to them. You can always talk to Jesus. He always tells the Truth and knows the right way to go.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”” John 8:32 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.8.32.NKJV
