CAMPING IN THE FALL!!

My amazingly awesome college group from church went on a camping trip this past weekend to Mt. Cheaha! It was so much fun to spend time with the people that i would consider myself to be the closest friends with! We left saturday around 9ish to head up there and when we arrived we set up camp and did a little eploring; however this exploration quickly turned into a "where is the trail" moment and then into a couple of hours of not knowing where we were!! This would have been all well and good if only it were earlier in the day, but it was nearing dark and no one brought a flash light! God gave us a beautiful full moon to light the way up the mountain so we could all return to camping peacefully in out little camp site.Neadless to say it was an adventure ha ha!!

 

We were lost somewhere among these trees it was crazy to look down on it the next day and see just how far we walked!! ouch my legs are sore today!!

I was so thankful to have this time to spend with such amazing friends!! I know that leaving Tuscaloosa is going to be bittersweet! There are no greater friends than the ones that I have here!! I have grown so close to the comforts of home that I know leaving will be the first challenge Rick and I face when we are married! while I absolutely cant wait to call Florence home I know there will  be a lot of cell phone minutes spent talking to these wonderful people that God has blessed my life with! Friendship is the first thing that came to mind when I was thinking of the things I was thankful for this Thanksgiving week and how God allows us to have those people in our lives who make us laugh, strengthen, encourage, and just grow up with and that truley is such a blessing!! I have the best friend ever!!

Also on this lovely trip I was in awe of the splindor of the handiwork of God!! How anyone could look at something so beautiful and think that it is a coincidence I am not sure.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Psalm 19:1

Worship the Lord in the splendor of Holiness; tremble before Him ALL the earth! Psalm 95:9

When I look into the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon an the stars, which you have set in place, What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:3

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! Psalm 32:8

While getting lost in the woods was somewhat terrifying, later I was forced to think about these verses. While I was complaining about how stinky it was we were lost I am pretty sure God just wanted me to look up and thank him and just stand in awe of his splendor and majesty revealed in His creation! Just some food for thought next time you are lost in the woods ha ha!!

24 days until I start my life with this guy!!!