Posting from the Pinnacle

I feel like I am on the top of the world and today is going to be a great day! Last night, I received two emails from old friends, friends I love dearly but had lost contact with. This past week, a grade school friend happened to find my blog and we have been corresponding. After two weeks, multiple medications, and allergic reactions with more medications, my illness finally seems to be rounding the bend. Last night,I had a great conversation with my mom who is preparing to go to Croatia next month. I also was blessed to speak with two of my grandchildren, and then I had a long conversation with my daughter in law. But I am most excited because a couple of months ago, a young woman logged on to my blog and commented under "KSL". She stated she did not know much about the Bible and had some questions. After many, many emails, she asked for my help in finding a church in her community. I gave her a contact name and yesterday, she and her husband had their first Bible study with the minister there. She emailed to thank me and ask for continued prayers. They are studying again tonight. (If my throat didn't still hurt a bit, I would shout and sing----my heart will have to do it for me)
Have you ever been mountain climbing? I have!! There are few things more exciting than making that long, arduous trek and finally reaching the top. There, the struggles of the journey are forgotten amidst the grandeur and thrill of the view. From the pinnacle, you can see such beauty all around you. You see things you did not see before. You notice that the world is much smaller and much less overwhelming than it seems from the bottom. From the pinnacle, the majesty of God is so tangible you can almost feel it. Although exhausted, the adrenalin still courses through your body, and you tremble as you pause for a moment of solitary gratitude.
At the pinnacle, with renewed conviction and courage, you feel invincible!! This is a great place to be.
You caution yourself that the air is thinner up here, and that sometimes at the pinnacle, one's thinking tends to become larger than life. You remind yourself that God is not done with you yet and as you look off in the distance, you can see other peaks, higher and more difficult than the one you have just ascended. You suck in your breath, steeling yourself for the next part of the journey, knowing the the view from that pinnacle will be even more breathtaking, more inspiring. You decide to sit for just awhile, savoring the moment, praying to the Father, and readying for the next leg.
The pinnacle is a wonderful place to be. It is a place of reflection, a place of contentment, a place of overwhelming oneness with the Father. From here, the path will have ups and downs, there will be steep places, there will be danger, there will be weariness, but there will also be another pinnacle. While everything is not perfect, there are other challenges and other struggles, today I feel like I am standing on the pinnacle and I have to tell you, the view from here, my friends, is amazing!!!

Peace
Neva