From Planless to PCT by Carson
Well, hello there everyone! Heads up, this will be a longer post than normal. It’s a testimony about the awesome ways that the Lord has been guiding me in this past year. First, a confession. There’s something I haven’t told most of you that I’ve known it for few months now. Here it is: Next year, God willing, I will be hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. How in the world did this come about? To get the full scope of things we’ll have to go way back. It all starts with the first 17 years of my life. As most of you know, I’ve been raised in a devoutly Catholic family since I was born. I’ve loved it, but there was always one thing that never clicked for me. I felt like I had never heard the voice of God. I hadn’t heard a physical voice, or a spiritual one, or really anything. I felt loved by God, but as far as communication went, it kind of felt like a one-way conversation for the most part. This was made harder by the fact that apparently no one else ...