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\"\"This past weekend, Joel and I took a much needed weekend away to rest, reconnect and…climb a volcano.\u00a0 Yes, you read that correctly, we climbed Rucu Pinchincha which is an active volcano.\u00a0 If you have been to Quito to visit, you have likely taken the Teleferico, or cable car to the top of Pinchincha to see the amazing views of Quito and beyond.\u00a0 We have lived here for almost 8 years now and have yet to climb the rest of Pinchinca which is well over 15,000 feet, which is 2,000+ feet past the teleferico.<\/p>\n

As we began to hike past what was known to us from our many, MANY visits to the teleferico with friends, family and teams, I began to focus on one thing, breath.\u00a0 The whole hike, this is what I went back to.\u00a0 Now I am not trying to over-dramatisize or even over spiritualize this whole experience, but in the midst of a challenge (at least for me) such as this, the basics is what seems to come in to focus and this is exactly what happened to me.\u00a0 On a normal day at the teleferico, breath is something you focus on, but as you hike further and further up the path, you are forced to focus on what gives you life and that is breath.\u00a0 The altitude forces this and for me, this was what I needed.\u00a0 With all of the different things that seem to steal my attention and focus, this time brought me back to the basics of what is needed for life, breath.\u00a0 As we continued to hike, I continued to think of breath, in Genesis 1 when the spirit was hovering, when God breathed life in to humanity, God breathing His breath in to His disciples.\u00a0 All of these examples bringing us back to the basics of scripture.\u00a0 We continued to hike higher and I wondered how life can survive here.\u00a0 I took a minute to look around and see LIFE.\u00a0 Plants, flowers, butterflies were all around and the wind and breeze was stimulating life around us.\u00a0 All of this, new beginning.\u00a0 We continued to hike and then we came to an area of the hike where we had to cross an area of unknown.<\/p>\n

Then, while continuing to feel myself breathing, I felt my heart race and fear took over.\u00a0 I didn’t know what to do.\u00a0 What was in front of me was unknown and I didn’t know how to get there and what was below me was too scary to look at or think about.\u00a0 I couldn’t go back and I didn’t know how to go forward.\u00a0 How do you conquer fear like that?\u00a0 I just closed my eyes and the fear overwhelmed me.\u00a0 Joel helped guide me, where to put my feet, where to put my hands, and we made it across the unknown.\u00a0 We contemplated going back because if weather came in, this area would be really risky and with what I had just experienced, I couldn’t imagine it being riskier.\u00a0 But we kept going at the encouragement of a guide that had come up behind us with hikers.\u00a0 Thank God for her and her teammate who guided us through another hairy area.\u00a0 Very similarly fear overtook me, in ways I hadn’t really experienced before.\u00a0 I just kept saying I didn’t want to do this.\u00a0 But the guide encouraged me, told me where to put my hands and where to step next.\u00a0 Secure hands, secure feet he kept saying.\u00a0 Each time I wanted to turn back, these two guides kept encouraging us to go on.\u00a0 As we climbed to the sand (I had read it was only 20 more minutes from here), I was once again overtaken by fear that I didn’t understand.\u00a0 Fear of falling, fear of the unknown..I went back to the two things I need for life at this point, breathing and my heart.\u00a0 I felt my heart continue to pound and I heard my breath.\u00a0 We continued to climb.\u00a0 It started to get foggy as we were climbing toward the summit.\u00a0 I kept telling myself not to continue, “you’re fine, look how far you made it, what an accomplishment”, but the guide kept saying, just a little bit more.\u00a0 We began to get to jagged rocks that you climb to get to the summit.\u00a0 The fear set in again and I said to Joel I just want to go back.\u00a0 But I didn’t know how to go down and it would have been risky to even try it at that point, so we kept going.\u00a0 I finally, FINALLY climbed the last rock to make it to the top and I just sat down and cried, but the crying turned in to hyperventilating as the altitude is something I have’t experienced in quite that way before.\u00a0 I went back to breathing, calming myself, telling myself I was OK, I was OK.<\/p>\n

I am glad I did it, I am glad I made it down.\u00a0 In all we hiked 25,000 steps from my FitBit, 200 floors, 2,000+ feet and lived to tell about it.<\/p>\n

The last couple of days have been a reminder of the experience as my leg muscles hurt, even my chest hurts, but it has been a reminder of breath, of life, of continuing on, of conquering, of knowing limits and going beyond what you think you can do.\u00a0 It goes back to basics, breath, God-given, our life, God-breathed.\u00a0 May you LIVE in that today.<\/p>\n

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Path<\/p><\/div>\n

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Starting out<\/p><\/div>\n

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Map<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leading the way<\/p><\/div>\n

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Made it to the top!<\/p><\/div>\n

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We made it!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Going back down<\/p><\/div>\n

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All done with a beautiful view of Cotopaxi in the background<\/p><\/div>\n

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