Henninger Flats

Cara and I took a morning hike up to Henninger Flats this morning. This is the first hike we have taken together in a couple of years. We parked our car on Altadena Dr then hiked up the Mt.Wilson toll road to Henninger. It was a lot steeper than what I remembered! We left a few minutes before 9am and got there around 10:37. The hike was 8 miles round trip. After coming down from the top we soaked our feet in the little creek flowing through Eaton Canyon. It felt really good! For lunch we ended up at Daphne's. I had a Gyro Salad, very healthy. The hike was very hot because you are hiking up and down a fire road with very little shade.

Henninger Flats is an experimental forest station which is operated by Los Angeles County. When you get on top it is very cool with pine trees. The camp grounds are very nice. I need to take my BSA troop up there for a camp out. We met a young family coming down who had camped out for the night. If you have the chance this is a nice moderate hike.

Milestones

There are a few things which have been happening so far this year.

We have had our 2nd daughter get married within a year. Kathleen was married to Matt on April 30. They are a wonderful couple. I am so happy for Matt and Kat.

We will have our 7th child graduate from AWANAS next Wednesday. AWANAS is a great program which promotes the word of God among our children. This is something which is starting to be missed with our children in church. There is more entertainment going on now in the church in an attempt to "draw" children to Jesus. My question is what method did Jesus employ to draw the children to himself? Did he use entertainment? Or did He draw children to himself just because of who He is? The church doesn't gimmicks and programs to draw children to Jesus, first it was the parents who brought their children to Jesus to be blessed by Him.

As you can tell, Jesus is laying upon my heart again his love for the children.