Chapter Six: Sights on the Mountain and Stirrings in the Heart

This weekend, we had a little retreat in the mountains to celebrate easter weekend. It was a time of refreshment and reflection on the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Yesterday, we decided to follow the road up the mountain to see what we could find. Here are some pictures of our adventure!

This is one of the beautiful buildings we saw on our hike! It was so intricate.

Emily and I found some nice new real estate opportunities

A beautiful painted rock along the side of the road

"She think's my saddle's sexy" 

Hibiscus flowers adding some color to our walk!

Okay, so get this. We are right at the top of a mountain, and one of the haitian girls we are walking beside tells us to follow her to where the artisans work. We end up in this little village where they have areas for artisans to set up, a covered area for a food market, and most bizarrely of all, a tennis court! This mural is painted at the end of the court.

This is the stage that borders the tennis court. 

The amazing view

This is at our hotel, where we spent our time in worship and studying the resurrection

The garden was gorgeous

This is the front of the hotel!

It was nice and cool being in the mountain air... I even wore sweat pants! We also came back from our hike drenched with sweat and the excitement of adventure, only to find they had turned the electricity on, which meant warm showers! It was my first warm shower in the past month, and it did not disappoint!!

I am always so humbled upon reflecting on the humanity of Jesus... that He would step out of Heaven and walk in flesh, as one able to empathize with our weaknesses. That He, having no sin of His own to confess, would take mine to the cross and die my death. And on the third day, the stone would be rolled away to reveal that my Jesus rose! It was impossible for death to hold Him. The picture that puts in my mind of Jesus fighting against the hold of death, motivated by the purest, most furious kind of love. Yelling out "I'm coming for my bride!" as He struggled and WON.
And He has made us co-heirs, more than conquerors... oh yes, this is a time to reflect on how very much we have to be thankful for!!!