Hello, and thank you for joining me for Give Him 15. We have been doing several posts from the book,

the pleasure of his company. The most important thing about our walk with God is loving him and

enjoying his presence and giving Him out.

The title of today's post is The Walk.

I love to walk. I also like to explore.

When I hunt, which I also like to do, I mostly walk around and check out the sights.

This diminishes my effectiveness, since the animals are so adept at seeing movement and hearing

noises. I don't mind, however. For me, the thrill is in the hunt itself, the search, the exploration, not in the harvesting of an animal.

The farthest I've walked in one day while hunting, that I know for sure, is just over 20 miles.

A lot of...

I know this because 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 were 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, it was on private land.

The area was gorgeous, with lush meadows bordering aspen trees and the beautiful mountain stream.

There was no access to the road. Thinking perhaps we would find another road if we followed the stream, we walked a mile

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