Walk by Faith

I am into the 3 week done of camp and 5 more to go. I have not had the chance to talk late night walks for a long time until an unplanned one tonight right after an errand.

I took a much longer walk today as the route was not planned and I came home feeling exhausted. But the walk was necessarily nonetheless even if I was sick, and God has reminded me of a few things. More than anything today was something unusual recalling something in the past.

I grew up in a neighborhood where housing arrangement was shaped in a hexagon shape, the street itself comes full circle... or hexagon. I remembered as a kid how I used to walk and cycled around the neighborhood and I would pay attention to the trees. I remembered when I got into college and when life started to get harder I would often take these walks and talk to the trees as walk past them. As weird as it is, the trees were the very objects that were permanent growing up. Houses goes through renovation but the trees remained and it was almost like they were witnesses to my life growing up, from times of happiness and heartbreak.

Tonight as I stroll through a busy street and walk pass some of the familiar views I have passed for the past 2 months, I was reminded of those trees. As I was listening to a song through my earphones, I was reminded about my first love. The love that got me going for over 17 years. The love that sustained me thus far. The love that found me at every corner I turned. God was my witness, but more than what those trees were to me. God was sustaining my life in such a way that I founded comfort in my state of need and dissatisfaction. I am reminded that I am walking through a life that is beyond what I expected and I will experience more of it and God be my witness as I walk with faith.