Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is

The Walk. I love to walk. The farthest I've walked in one day that I know of is just over 20

miles. I know the distance because on a hunt,

my nephew measured it using his GPS.

On this particular day,

such a long walk wasn't planned.

My brother Tim, his son,

another friend and I were scouting,

looking for the best way in and out of a specific location. We were confident there was a dirt road at the base of the mountain we were standing on

because we could see portions of it. The woods, however, were too thick to see where it led.

We debated for a few minutes whether to carefully make the very steep descent,

which was a long way down.

If we were wrong about where the road led,

the climb all the way back up the steep mountain would

be grueling and dangerous, if not impossible.

But since we really wanted to check out the road and we're confident it would lead us out,

we decided to take the risk.

We were wrong.

Way wrong.

I can't begin to tell you just how wrong we were.

The road was actually on the other side of a broad stream, no way across.

And even if we could have gotten across, the road was on private land.

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