Eagle and Haynes from Seager via Seager Trail to Pine Hill West Branch to Intersection on Oliverea Mapledale Trail (All Trails Challenge Map 142)

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Eagle and Haynes from Seager via Seager Trail to Pine Hill West Branch to Intersection on Oliverea Mapledale Trail (All Trails Challenge Map 142)


I find the most nerve wracking part of hiking and ski touring to be wondering if there will be a parking spot available. Fortunately, despite my late start, I arrived to an empty lot.


The trails are slippery since they’re carpeted with dead leaves and the water crossings could be tricky at times. (I’ll admit I fell.) However, I only saw two people near Eagle and was alone the rest of the time, so I can live with that.



This week I learned something about how the universe doles out karma. When my divorce first happened, I remember getting on my knees and praying for justice. I wasn’t spiritual back then, but I was desperate and powerless. It’s those moments that humble us all, and make us finally ask God for help even if we don’t necessarily believe in God at the time.


In my mind justice meant my enemies suffered in that they would fail in achieving goals or status in this world, and regret their actions. But that’s not really how the universe works. 


After communicating with my ex wife for the first time in 4 years, I asked the universe to help me go deeper in terms of forgiveness. I even said, “There are some people I cannot reach out to, you have to open a door and I will seize the opportunity.” Let’s just say one night I was talking to 3 people that I had to forgive or had to forgive me. The universe let the floodgates open.

 



They are all successful in life, but the universe did provide justice in the form of wisdom and helping them learn from their mistakes. I felt that was totally fair and satisfied with that. So maybe we need to stop focusing on what we think things like justice, love, forgiveness, or whatever we ask for should look like, and just ask that it appear in the form the universe sees fit. We get very rigid about how we want things to manifest in our lives. Maybe we have things we’ve asked for just not in the package we thought it would arrive in, so we haven’t opened them up to see what’s inside.

Today’s IPAs: Opiate Sun @upward.brewing (8/10) and Brightside IPA @lonepinebrewing (7/10)



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