Top of the Mountain
A question I ask is, "Have you ever had a mountain top experience?"
An experience you embraced wholeheartedly, coming out the other side
you were completely exhilarated. The experiences are hard to come by
but we certainly remember them.
I am not an overly athletic guy. I jog, I lift weights. I don't
over do it. While I was the Wing Chaplain at Misawa Air Base,Japan
I had the opportunity to join the Catholic Mens group from the chapel.
They had decided to travel to Tokyo and go to the base of Mount Fuji.
The goal was to climb the mountain. There were a couple of guidelines
we had to follow. One, stay together as best we could. There was a
certain point we had to climb to. If we were not at that point by 2 pm,
we had to turn around and come back down. No one was allowed to
spend the night on the mountain.
So at 7 am in the morning the trek began. A long slow difficult journey.
Not impossible, but not easy. As we got higher on this 12,389 foot
mountain, breathing got more difficult as the air thinned. We had to
stop more often to catch our breath which we never did. Two hours into
the climb, we started seeing some members in our group turning around
and heading back back down. Somebody forgot to tell us fighting
altitude sickness was part of the climb. I made it to the top around
3 pm. I sat there completely satisfied and exhausted. I did it, I made it.
I made it to the mountaintop. I rested looking out over Tokyo and the
valley below. After about 30 minutes, I decided to make my way back
down to the base. Even getting down from the peak took 2 hours, but I
had my mountaintop experience.
In our walk with Jesus I have discovered that mountain top experiences
can come when you least expect them. God calls us to serve others.
Walking with God you can change a life, you can save a life. You can
share a one of a kind experience of loving someone else.
By doing so, you discover the experiences God gives you are, "One of
a Kind". The kind that will change your life. God loves You!
An experience you embraced wholeheartedly, coming out the other side
you were completely exhilarated. The experiences are hard to come by
but we certainly remember them.
I am not an overly athletic guy. I jog, I lift weights. I don't
over do it. While I was the Wing Chaplain at Misawa Air Base,Japan
I had the opportunity to join the Catholic Mens group from the chapel.
They had decided to travel to Tokyo and go to the base of Mount Fuji.
The goal was to climb the mountain. There were a couple of guidelines
we had to follow. One, stay together as best we could. There was a
certain point we had to climb to. If we were not at that point by 2 pm,
we had to turn around and come back down. No one was allowed to
spend the night on the mountain.
So at 7 am in the morning the trek began. A long slow difficult journey.
Not impossible, but not easy. As we got higher on this 12,389 foot
mountain, breathing got more difficult as the air thinned. We had to
stop more often to catch our breath which we never did. Two hours into
the climb, we started seeing some members in our group turning around
and heading back back down. Somebody forgot to tell us fighting
altitude sickness was part of the climb. I made it to the top around
3 pm. I sat there completely satisfied and exhausted. I did it, I made it.
I made it to the mountaintop. I rested looking out over Tokyo and the
valley below. After about 30 minutes, I decided to make my way back
down to the base. Even getting down from the peak took 2 hours, but I
had my mountaintop experience.
In our walk with Jesus I have discovered that mountain top experiences
can come when you least expect them. God calls us to serve others.
Walking with God you can change a life, you can save a life. You can
share a one of a kind experience of loving someone else.
By doing so, you discover the experiences God gives you are, "One of
a Kind". The kind that will change your life. God loves You!
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