Its the Climb!

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to hike Mount Timpanogoes. I enjoy hiking, but this is one of those hikes that, for me, is super hard. It is not necessarily a hard hike, but what makes it hard is its length.  It is steep and challenging, but the view at the top is so worth all the effort.  Now this might seem a little cliché, but the song that always came in my head as I hiked was The Climb, by Miley Cyrus. In this song it says that, “Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waitin' on the other side, It's the climb…These are the moments that I'm gonna remember most.”  To me this means that it isn’t about the big events in our life that we remember, but the small things that add up to the big events if our lives.  The things that really shape our lives in the journey that we take to reach certain points.  In the gospel it is the little everyday things such as reading our scriptures and saying our prayers that makes us who we are today.  Sure Giant spiritual experiences come, but they also fade and what we are left with is the little things.  So what am I going to do now- I am going to find joy in the journey and focus on the little things and living each day to the fullest.  Sure I will remember the view that I say at the top of the Mountain, but I will remember more the conversation I had with some great friends that I hiked with.