Not long after my divorce was final, I started to spend more time hiking. You see, I’m happiest when I’m out in nature – the beauty of creation; the serenity of the outdoors. On my first hike following my divorce, I found a heart-shaped rock…on the next hike, another. It wasn’t long before I was finding multiple heart-shaped rocks along each of the trails I hiked.
In late April of this year, I hiked Havasupai. This has long been a bucket list hike of mine. As I hiked down into the west end of the Grand Canyon and made my way to the beautiful falls, I came upon several more heart-shaped rocks. At one point, it occurred to me…these heart-shaped rocks appeared for a specific purpose.
Hearts are a symbol of love.
God is Love.
It became abundantly clear to me while hiking across the Canyon floor that God has been leaving these hearts as a physical representation that He has walked the path before me and knows what lies ahead. I can trust that He is laying out my path and preparing the steps of my journey.
This blog is evidence of that. In my welcome post, I mentioned how I had intended to start this blog back in October 2011. You see, I picked the web link, created the design and gave my blog a title back then, but little else was done with it. These steps were taken just the month before I was baptized. It wasn’t until it was placed upon my heart in the early part of this month, more than ten years later, that I began posting to it. And in the moment that I visited my site for the first time since creating it, I noticed that there was a heart hidden in the midst of the abstract watercolors of the background design. He has been leaving evidence that He has traveled the path before me long before I was even fully aware.
Heavenly Father, thank you for going before me and laying out the path that you want me to follow. Thank you, Father, for leaving tokens for me to come across to know that you have been in the places where I end up. Father, help me to continually be obedient to your promptings to follow you – whatever that may look like – and to not lose sight that you are with me wherever I go. In your Son’s holy name I pray, amen.
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