The tree that you see on either side of you didn’t just break in two, permitting you to pass by, when it fell during a storm. Those rock steps you climb ’way out away from any road don’t just happen to be there.
The Fellowship includes all who are given, grasp, and use a tool having a large, hoe-like blade on one end and a tined blade on the other, to grub out duff and grade the underlying mineral soil to create…the treadway for a hiking trail.
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the highest point or stage; also : one that represents perfection of the thing expressed
Are we conceited or what? Actually, there’s a story behind this name, one that involves much, much more than simple (minded) arrogance (we hope). And, that story unfolds here…