DeColores!  The walk was amazing.  I am still on the mountain...however, I can feel the pull of the everyday world pulling hard to get me back ‘down’ where I was. 

I think the I took two things from that weekend would be, first,  how it felt to realize that God wants everyone of us, and that once we accept his Son there is no difference between us…some may be more knowledgeable in the Word or other things but God really does want us to help in His work.  I had spent YEARS comparing myself to others and beating myself up for all the mistakes I’d made when was just waiting for me to ‘come home like the prodigal son I was.’

The second thing is the immediacy and entirety of his forgiveness.  I’d never really put it in perspective before even though I knew it with my head.  The verse that came to me that weekend was…Luke 23:43.  Its when Jesus is on the cross dying between the two criminals.  The one guy is railing on him and the other tells him to shut up…then he asks Jesus to remember him when he comes into His kingdom.  Jesus tells him “TODAY, you will be with me in paradise”  Today, right then, no go home and clean up, no put on your suit and meet me at the gate and we’ll discuss it…nothing…just total and immediate forgiveness.  I’d spent 21 years trying to get myself ‘ready’ to work for Him when all he was waiting on was for me to say…Here I am Lord – send me.