Huckleberries and a long thoughtful road...

We went camping with family on Friday night. We'd never been to this particular mountain and didn't have any idea how rough the carved out road up to the camping sight was. I thought we crawled up the mountain for at least five miles trying to avoid the rocks. It was probably more like 2 miles but it took a long time. We probably won't do that to our vehicle again. If we had known that it was going to get that bumpy we would have camped out somewhere else but once you started up the road there was no room to turn back till maybe half way up there and we kept thinking that we would surely be there soon.

It was worth the trip though and we had lots of fun. We picked 2 gallons of Huckleberries(which I thought were going to be blueberries) and about 1/2 gallon of blackberries. There were wild ponies there and we heard them sometime during the night. The boys roasted marshmallows, picked berries and ate them, and even got to pet one of the ponies before it trotted away.

On our way down the mountain my husband made a statement that stayed with me. Maybe it was because the berries were small and it took a long time to get 1 gallon. Maybe because once you found a good tree you stayed with it..
He mentioned that he truly understood what Jesus was saying about the kingdom of Heaven being like a treasure hidden in a field and when a man finds it, he hides it and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. (This is found in Matthew Chapter 13)

After he mentioned it, I kept thinking about the kingdom of God. I was exposed to it and found the treasure when I was 14.
Maybe He found me and I responded. It made me want God more than my will, the desires of my heart, more than the fashions and doings of the day, and more than the world's wisdom. I desperately wanted God and was willing to sell everything to have Him within my heart with peace, and forgiveness, and adoption, and with the love and joy that only He could give...

The Kingdom of Heaven....Oh, to seek for it and find Salvation- to buy it and make it one's own. There is no greater treasure anywhere on earth.