I began going up the mountains to hike when I was in college and continued loving the mountains when I started my fitness journey. Jesus likes the mountains, it one of the places where He prays.
Reaching the top and finishing the itinerary are the best parts of the whole experience. The going up and the descends are the hardest. In betweens, we would experience walking in a valley, some valleys that are muddy, some easy, some dark.
These valleys are low points between two hills. I can remember Akiki trail's valley which was one of the darkest and scariest valleys I ever crossed. I conquered this valley and survived the peak of Mount Pulag.
Metaphorically, in one way or another, we go through the valleys of life. The valleys of despair. Valleys of low points. Peter and Paul, great men of God, went through many dark periods of introspection to forced them to think about what is really means to follow Jesus. It is where in these valleys that God gives Himself and it is where Peter experienced the unconditional love of the same Christ that he denied just days before; the same Christ who loves, forgives, and gives grace to Paul who had persecuted the followers of Christ.
In Psalm 23, David said that even though he walk through the valley of the shadow of death, He shall fear no evil for God is with him.
What to do when we go through the valley? Just go through it while we remember His promise that He is with us. What we go through doesn't need validity, it is okay to feel, to think and but in the end of each valley, entrust everything to God. Stay focused on the end goal of the journey, whether it be fitness, spiritual discipline, emotional maturity, or life itself.
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