June 18, 2004

• HEY HEY!! We’re on our last leg of the journey, have one more whole day before we head back home to Bird in Hand… This has been the most super vacation – we’ve been busy and active and have been doing all kinds of stuff, kind of unusual for our family to be this active  but it’s been so fun because we get to sleep in every morning.  White water rafting on class 1-4 rapids was definitely a highlight of our trip, and on Wednesday my dad, Claudia, Jamos, and I climbed the 14,100 foot Pike’s Peak of Colorado.  We left at 3am and got there 9 hours and 13 miles later. It was definitely a work-out and I was sooo happy to see the summit! The challenge of stuff like that thrills me though – seeing if I can actually conquer the mountain… And it carries over into my daily life with God too – the step by step, enough light to see where I’m supposed to walk next, enough strength to keep following my Jesus… Sometimes I’m exhausted and wonder how I can go one more step, but He is so faithful… And He’s so personal too – you know how wonderful it is to actually say, “MY Jesus” ?? No other religion is so personal to people, where their leader is actually theirs on a personal, intimate level… What a tender, sweet Jesus we love!!

  
  

  Lizzie!!! You’re going to China!!! I am sooo excited for you I could cry!! Can’t wait to talk with you about it!

  
  

  ciao,

  
  

  clarita <><

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