I'm taking a short break from the book of Genesis and looking specifically at who God is. Since 2016, it has been my goal to spend a night alone in the woods, allowing myself to have time away from all distractions with God. I've taken to calling it my vision quest because my experience has been that God shows up, gives a clear sense of focus, and shows me where my attention needs to be for the immediate future.
In 2018, I never spent a night alone in the woods. I was planning on it, had every intention to do it, even had a plan on where to go, but it never happened. I kept putting it off, never making solid plans but having a lot of excuses as to why I was putting it off, and then it began to get cold. I had set plans for two different weekends in November, and both times something came up last minute. I got to the end of the year thinking that the vision quest didn't happen this past year, but as I began to reflect on the 2018 my mind went to an evening I spent in my hammock in early July.
I had been feeling the need to just escape everything for a little while and reflect on some things. The first weekend of July I took my pack, headed to a trail I haven't hiked a lot, it was actually the same trail I had lost my hammock on during the previous year's vision quest, and was able to spend some time reflecting on what God had been doing, and where HE was taking me.
Vision quest 2018 did not involved an over night in the woods, but God showed up and spoke to me just the same. And the fact that it was different than what I was expecting actually fits with what God showed me...
Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!
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