A Mission For Redemption [continued]

Could I find this path? That was the question.

From the viewing spot I carried on walking with the path I had come, hoping it would lead me to a path into the ravine that I had spotted. But this path was leading me back the way I had come, to the tar road to the motel. It seems I had to beat my own path towards the ravine and find my own way into The Valley of a Thousand Hills.

 That is what I did. From the well trodden path that I was standing on. I stepped into the rough terrain forging my own path. Climbing over rocks and stones, trampling on grass and weeds. Always looking ahead, no way did I want to turn back. The strange thing was when I did turn around to look at the path I had trampled down for myself, I could not see it, the veld had taken it’s natural form again.

The ravine was not to far off, I could see the gap. As I got closer to the edge of the escarpment the scenery opened up again, hill upon hill in The Valley of a Thousand Hills down below.

For a little while did I walk next to the edge of the escarpment and looked down below at the wonderful scenery of hill upon hill covered in a lush green carpet. How I wished I could be transported as in immediately to what my eyes beheld, but my faith was not strong enough.

I could hear the sound of water slapping and splashing the rocks as it fell down into the valley. The spray floated into the immediate atmosphere of the waterfall, refreshing the plants and trees.

I felt the cool air as I came closer and saw a rainbow, the peace of God, stretching into the immediate air of the waterfall. I closed my eyes for the moment and felt the spray against my skin, it refreshed me with hope.

              I searched for a path down into the valley but could not find an immediate path that would take me down. It seems I have to make my own path again. The seed in my head was planted, my liberation of my spirit is up to me, I have to make my own way down into this luscious valley that lay before my eyes.

The path that I found by accident lay before me, like stairs into your home.

The waterfall refreshed me, I felt a new life start within me and that life lay before me in the valley below.