About 6 years ago, I had an incredible experience in Maui, Hawaii. <\/p>\n
I was there because my mother-in-law had cancer, and she had always dreamed of taking all her kids and grandkids to Hawaii. So she did. Incredible thing #1: My mother-in-law, who was told she had about a year to live, beat the cancer. We praise God for that to this day.<\/p>\n
While I was there, I went on a little trek to the interior of the island by myself. It began with a hike through a giant bamboo forest. The gentle sound of these tall and looming stalks of bamboo in the wind made me wonder about what gods the ancient Hawaiians worshipped. <\/p>\n
I ended up at a clear and beautiful stream, which I started following up. This led me to a picture perfect waterfall. It was about 20 feet high, falling into a perfect sized pool, good for swimming or just sitting beside, watching and listening to the falls.<\/p>\n
I found a rope tied up the left side of the waterfall, so I climbed it and was able to keep going. This led me to a 30 foot high waterfall into a pool about 3x the size of the first! I was all alone on this trek, ahd the place to myself, and just gawked at it, spellbound.<\/p>\n
Inspired by the promise of greater things, I climbed the rocks beside this waterfall and kept going again. I ended up at a spot where the stream could not be followed on foot any farther, as it disappeared between 2 winding walls of ancient solidified volcanic rock. I had been alone for this whole trek, but I still hid my backpack and hiking clothes in some distant brush, and swam up the river to see where it would go. I kid you not, I was in Eden as I swam through floating wild fruit through this watery corridor. After a couple of bends, it dead-ended at a small waterfall about 8 feet high. I swam to it\u2019s base and the only way up was to grab the rocks behind the water and climb up the falls. <\/p>\n
Then\u2026glory. <\/p>\n
I walked around another bed and what I saw was nothing short of awe inspiring. I was at a giant pool of water (more like a small lake) that was covered with mist caused by a 150+ tall waterfall that was falling from what looked like the top of a volcano! I now it wasn\u2019t, but looking up, it felt like I had entered into the rounded shoot of a huge volcano. <\/p>\n
I stayed for a long time\u2026all alone\u2026worshipping.<\/p>\n
Ever since that day, I have wanted to go back and take my son, who was 4 at the time.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s 10 now, and I\u2019m starting to save up.<\/p>\n
So keep an eye out for some great books for sale on eBay.<\/p>\n
For starters, I\u2019ve got two Church of Christ treasures that some of you might be interested in here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n I\u2019ve got a couple of cool and useful Bibles here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n And the crowning jewel (thus far) is this copy<\/a> of Bacon\u2019s Essays that was a gift from the Reverend AW Tozer to his friend the Rev. F. Bertram Russell (this is the only one with a reserve price\u2026I\u2019ve held on to this one for over a decade).<\/p>\n
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