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In the Bible, mountaintops symbolize profound spiritual clarity, renewal, and divine connection.

Moments like Moses receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai,

Elijah hearing God's gentle whisper on Mount Horub and even Jesus's transfiguration alongside

Moses and Elijah. They highlight these sacred spaces in places where God reveals his glory,

guidance, and purpose.

When Averill Shad found herself at her lowest point in life, a new widow,

she too set her sights to the mountaintop.

Averill. My husband Josh suddenly passed.

He was a very fit, healthy guy, and he collapsed in our home gym, and it was sudden cardiac death.

I think the shock kicks in and you kind of go, I have to be here for my kids.

I need to hold it together for them.

And I certainly made a lot of mistakes.

I tried to hide my tears from them, not let them see my emotion.

And, you know, looking back, I realized that would have been much more advantage for them to see my own sadness, my own emotion.

I had no knowledge previous to this of what it was like to walk through that.

And eight months into our loss, I said to the kids, we need to just have a family meeting.

And I'm just going to give you guys a heads up.

There's some things that I kind of need from you, but I want to hear what you need from me. And how are we going to give you guys a heads up. There's some things that I kind of need from you,

but I want to hear what you need from me and how are we going to make this work? And they said,

Mom, we really want you to be home before we go to school and home when we get home from school.

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