Sunday Thoughts: Summit Moments

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." - Rene Daumal

Sometimes you find a quote and it jumps into your heart. I've probably read this one 100 times since I found it at the beginning of the year. Each time it connects and grounds me back to a mindset of perspective. I find myself pondering "summits" in our life as a family and how grateful we have been for every one of those experiences. How impossible they looked when standing at the bottom of the mountain, overwhelmed with even the idea of getting to the top, but simply having enough trust in God to take the first step. And then another. And then another.

Reaching those summit moments came as we often carried fear, doubt, or worry, along with us. But we also carried trust, peace, resiliency and hope. Soaking in the moments to look around - to Be Still and Know. And step by step, little by little, those summit moments have come. They are so beautiful.