AT 41 - 6th May (460.5)

Look right

Lovely moon

 Nice easy 16 miles today. Some short ups and down but not like most days. Arrived at camp early so collected wood for another fire to finish the marshmallows. 

I’ll be leaving TN for the last time tomorrow, entering VA. I didn’t mention leaving NC for the last time a few days ago. Three states down, 10 to go. VA is as long as the last three combined so not changing another state for a while. 

Thought for the day

Uncle Nick Grindstaff

He was a hermit that lived on iron mountain. 

His gravestone say “lived alone, suffered alone and died alone”.

That got me thinking of someone else. 

He suffered alone and died alone but not as hermit but for me. 

Isaiah 53:3-5

 “He was despised and rejected by men,

 a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

 and as one from whom men hide their faces

 he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

 yet we esteemed him stricken,

 smitten by God, and afflicted. 

 

 But he was pierced for our transgressions;

 he was crushed for our iniquities;

 upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

 and with his wounds we are healed.”

Thank you Jesus that you suffered and died alone for me. My debt is paid. Hallelujah.