AT 17 - 12th April (147.4)

Linda would have love these. 

 Just arrived at Locust Cove gap. Tired, hot but feeling good. Climbed from 1707 to 5052, mostly switchbacks so not too hard. 

Last night was interesting, all my own fault!!! I was in NOC and ate out, and then I found a washing machine room. I chanced my luck and slept on floor. I left my bag on a shelf and maybe if I’d hidden it better I might have got away with it. 2am security found me and moved me on!!! 

I then walked on but couldn’t find the AT in the dark. Found some picnic tables and slept with only a quilt over me. At dawn it turned out that I was in the middle of quite an exposed site with houses overlooking me. So I got up quick and found the AT and started walking at 6:30am. I stoped to cook portage and coffee then walked till 12 and had lunch and a sleep. Then walked another 2 hours to here. 

Thought for the day. 

There are two things that you are not allowed to talk about on the AT. Religion and Politics. But if people bring it up I happy to talk. 

Bad, good and perfect. 

Some people think that life is a fluke and when we die that’s it. The don’t care for anyone but themselves. They take take take regardless of others. I’d describe someone like that as bad. 

Some people say that they are a “good person” and they probably are. I hear on the trail the phase, the church gave me good morals and I live by them. If the church is all about morals then we’re in trouble. 

The issue is that God is perfect and only those that are perfect can enter his presence. The bible describes our best works as filthy rags and we rarely even live up to our best. The only perfect one to have ever lived is Jesus and in dying for our worst or best sins he freed us from works,morals, and trying to live up to perfection. Instead he takes our filthy rags and freely gives us his perfect robe of righteousness to wear. Perfection can only be achieved when we give up and accept it.