Walking Through History Summer Project

Can't go on a BIG trip?  We go on lots of little ones.  Several years ago, we began the practice of mini sabbaticals each summer to refuel our batteries and defragment our cluttered minds. (Mostly does the trick!)

We miss what is right under our noses.  Literally.  Exploring the land and the history under our feet.  Stopping by and exploring those historical markers.  Reading the history of your town, county and state.

Intentional Exploration is what I call our summer explore.

Wild Horse Springs:  A haven of hope and encouragement for roadweary cowboys and pioneers.

   While looking up the above marker online- I found that an another amazing site existed hidden in plain view.  

A place where three trails converged.  

Poising! Texas Trail-Oregon Trail-Pony Express

Chisholm Trail

Sand Hill Station or Gill's Station

Oregon Trail

Pony Express-Gill's Station

All I could think of was the verse, "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." Jer. 6:16  

God gave us a specific trail that will keep us heading for our destination if we will choose that way.  I have a tendency to want it all and to walk every trail but that just isn't possible.

And the Robert Frosh Poem:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

...Robert Frost