Part three in a three-part series on acceptance of difficulty. “We must accept and cooperate with the inevitable. If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won’t change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves.” - Dale Carnegie Unfortunately, the Dale Carnegie quote above reflects the way many people go through the …
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Acceptance and the Problem With Bears
Acceptance and the Problem With Bears “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” – attributed to Frederik Nietzsche One of my favorite quotes is this one from Frederik Nietzsche. It is because it has been handily rewritten by the wilderness community into this: “That which does not kill you makes you stronger...except bears. …
Adventuring Again
This week, while blog posts magically appear on this page, I am out with my long-time wilderness partner, Doug. We are cruising the Sierra Crest near Mammoth Lakes, bagging a few peaks and visiting some remote lake basins. Here we are on our previous Sierra Crest adventure, peak bagging in the Yosemite Park area. …
On the Adventure of Adversity
This is the fourth post on this topic. “When trials and temptations crowd into your life, don’t resent them…welcome them as friends!” How can such difficulties possibly be for our good? And if they are for our good, does our God keep adding more adversity, more difficulty to our lives? And if He does that, …
On the Adventure of Adversity
“Life is hard. Then, you die.” This is the happy, hopeful message I read on a bumper sticker several years ago. I have never forgotten it, in large part because I was struck at how truthful the message was, and yet how it totally missed “the rest of the story.” Yes, adversity dogs us. Setbacks, …
One Pursuit 