Maybe, we can talk more sometime about hiking…I also love Canada…had a couple friends up there.

I bet you love watching the Olympics! Canada is doing pretty good!

Thanks for sharing your hiking insights..I like that very much! It inspired me to think more about hiking in Canada and maybe in the Rockies sometime.

Al

“My best time to remove the loneliness is hiking…and spending time alone with God and in prayer”.

That refreshed my memories of hiking in the Canadian Rockies a long time ago. I was 20, alone in Banff and Jasper Alberta where I had gone, having sat up on a train for 3 days, taking a “leap of faith”.

I had left my job that was very negative but I left believing I was going to find a better job or career change on my return.

I climbed mountains, staring over all HE had created and talked to HIM for 6 weeks. Then my money ran out, but it was time to get on with real opportunities, I sensed.

I returned refreshed, to Eastern Camada got a great opportunity and stayed there for 23 years, met my wife at the job and we have been married 37 years now.

Thanks for the reminder and keep on hiking up, or walking though whatever lays in front, knowing HE is beside you all the way.

Jan-Michael, (Canada)

Not sure…but did I miss something? I posted in the right place and shared my views/opinions.

In fact, I would say what beautiful morning…a God inspired bridge-rainbow. He might be looking in…and up to something…

Moving forward…

God Bless…
Al

I can be and have been happily an alone person most often in my life. When I am with a lot of people I am most lonely. Perhaps moving from London, England to Canada and having no family other than my parents and a sister had me growing up “outside” of the main stream where small differences led to large gaps in relationship building. Or maybe I really just found doing my own thing most comfortable for me though I did my own thing with strangers, volunteering at a seniors home, etc when I was a young adult.

Admittedly, training to be a ballet dancer as a boy through teen years was not too Canadian at the time. Then my musical career for a few years in a symphony orchestra, again was a bit different perhaps. But, of course, even when I settled down with a family and went into business, again, despite success getting to be Sr VP I hated the cocktail parties! Business travel had me filling in time at museums and I always felt awkward at a hotel bar except sipping a drink and listening at the piano bar.

I guess my time reading scripture or watching movies like Amazing Grace or Invictus and Chaplin, writing poetry, talking to God are my happiest times.

So, I guess I am never so alone as when I am with a gang of people and I am happy with a few good friends.

That’s my story. Lonliness is something I too never really know well when or why “she” drops by but HE is always by my side once I shake off the Blues and am reminded we are never really alone unless we choose so.

Blessings to all
Jan-Michael