After reading "Are We Going the Right Way?", a friend wrote back with this comment:

"As I read your account of the Grand Canyon hike, I was reminded of the book, Hinds' Feet on High Places.  As Much Afraid was climbing the steep places (and living up to her name), God was there every step of the way reminding her to keep going in order to get to the top.  I often feel like I am on one of the longest switchbacks in history as God has redirected me to college--at 33 yrs. old--but I have to descend in order to learn the lessons He wants me to learn.  I can't learn them from the top.  I am eager and ready to be out of this canyon and on to the next, and for the scenery to change."

Now I want to read the book.  From online, I did read this in the "Preface to the Allegory":  "One morning during the daily Bible reading on our mission compound in Palestine, our little Arab nurse read from Daily Light a quotation from the Song of Songs, 'The voice of my Beloved!  behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills' (Song of Solomon 2:8).  When asked what the verse meant, she looked up with a happy smile of understanding and said, 'It means that there are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome, and that to him, mountains of difficulty are as easy as an asphalt road!" 

From wherever we are in our canyon--at the bottom enjoying the refreshment of the river, at the top with our vista view, or clinging to the side as the sun bakes our back and thirst drains our water supply, we can always hear His voice.