Happy Six Years Since Trek (in July 2020)
To My Good Trek Family Children, where ever you are today!
Daughters: Hope, Faith, Charity, Grace, Mercy, Harmony and Felicity
and Sons: Lehi, Ammon, Mormon, Mosiah and Nephi
Ma says we love you and miss you all .. and I concur.
To My Good Trek Family Children, where ever you are today!
Daughters: Hope, Faith, Charity, Grace, Mercy, Harmony and Felicity
and Sons: Lehi, Ammon, Mormon, Mosiah and Nephi
Ma says we love you and miss you all .. and I concur.
They say hindsight is 20/20 and so this year (2020) may be a good time to look back and to see where we have been a bit clearer. The time measurement of the Covid 19 lockdowns in Spring 2020 seemeth me similar to our trek time where I posited that 3 days equaled 3 months .. and where the past 3 months of lockdowns have seemed more like 3 years. I also realize that '6 years ago' in a young person's life is a 'lifetime ago'. My theory: a month for a young child seems MUCH longer to them than for an teen or older adults. This because I believe time perception is a function of age: i.e. if you have only been alive for 1 year a minute is a much larger percentage of your life span as compared to a more ancient of days 60+ year old person such as myself (by a factor of 60+). Summers as a youth seemed to last forever and now flash by like those calendar pages flipping down in those old timey movies.
The Canada Day holiday is now quickly approaching. We have eighteen grandchildren, with our two oldest grandchildren graduating from the Magrath High School this year and the youngest graduating from Kindergarten. We also have 2 great grandchildren now both still in our ward nursery class (if we ever get to attend church in person again) and whom we get to watch on weekends. Meanwhile, I decided to celebrate this year with some window/lawn art. I wonder what you all are up to? I have gleaned a little from visits with your parents and family members and occasionaly from yourselves. I hear Hope and her toddler Ivy are visiting Canada (currently in a required 2 week quarantine) from the USA to visit with her brother who is preparing to leave on his own mission. Ammon is 18 months into his mission in BC and happens to be companion to my boss's son (who was reassigned from Africa (Swahili) back to Canada (BeCeEh) due to Covid 19). We saw Lehi helping restore the original brick veneer on the Roosters building. Harmony has tied the knot and Charity is planning the same very soon now. School and Missions, Jobs and Marriages. Everyone is moving on with their lives nicely.
The world out there IS seeming a bit crazy now. Apres Covid, enforced isolation, jobs lost, church and schools closed, mobs rant and rule, police and the rule of law and communities under attack, statues are falling and buildings have been burned, borders are closed, and a second Covid wave may arrive at any moment. Fortunately, we have ongoing uplifting guidance from our church leaders to help us cope! Currently Elder Gong: "While we may be physically distant from each other, we do not have to be spiritually distant from Jesus Christ. You and I can use this unique time as an opportunity to “hear Him.” Elder Holland: "Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever." Elder Stevenson: "Each of us can hear Him by listening to and heeding the promptings of the Holy Ghost." Mosiah 7:19 "Put your trust in God." and even this article: "Finding Unity in a Time of Division". We also have our own life experiences to draw from including our Trek family experience in the Valley of the Camp of Zion in the broad shadow of Old Chief mountain. I like to occasionally remember by reviewing my trek journal notes and fondly reflecting on some of the pictures we took there. And now as back then, it is time to put our boots back on and get out there and push/pull our handcart(s) up/down the trail.
Happy trails to all!
Love Ma and Pa Davies
The Canada Day holiday is now quickly approaching. We have eighteen grandchildren, with our two oldest grandchildren graduating from the Magrath High School this year and the youngest graduating from Kindergarten. We also have 2 great grandchildren now both still in our ward nursery class (if we ever get to attend church in person again) and whom we get to watch on weekends. Meanwhile, I decided to celebrate this year with some window/lawn art. I wonder what you all are up to? I have gleaned a little from visits with your parents and family members and occasionaly from yourselves. I hear Hope and her toddler Ivy are visiting Canada (currently in a required 2 week quarantine) from the USA to visit with her brother who is preparing to leave on his own mission. Ammon is 18 months into his mission in BC and happens to be companion to my boss's son (who was reassigned from Africa (Swahili) back to Canada (BeCeEh) due to Covid 19). We saw Lehi helping restore the original brick veneer on the Roosters building. Harmony has tied the knot and Charity is planning the same very soon now. School and Missions, Jobs and Marriages. Everyone is moving on with their lives nicely.
The world out there IS seeming a bit crazy now. Apres Covid, enforced isolation, jobs lost, church and schools closed, mobs rant and rule, police and the rule of law and communities under attack, statues are falling and buildings have been burned, borders are closed, and a second Covid wave may arrive at any moment. Fortunately, we have ongoing uplifting guidance from our church leaders to help us cope! Currently Elder Gong: "While we may be physically distant from each other, we do not have to be spiritually distant from Jesus Christ. You and I can use this unique time as an opportunity to “hear Him.” Elder Holland: "Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever." Elder Stevenson: "Each of us can hear Him by listening to and heeding the promptings of the Holy Ghost." Mosiah 7:19 "Put your trust in God." and even this article: "Finding Unity in a Time of Division". We also have our own life experiences to draw from including our Trek family experience in the Valley of the Camp of Zion in the broad shadow of Old Chief mountain. I like to occasionally remember by reviewing my trek journal notes and fondly reflecting on some of the pictures we took there. And now as back then, it is time to put our boots back on and get out there and push/pull our handcart(s) up/down the trail.
Happy trails to all!
Love Ma and Pa Davies
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