What Did I Do Before Breakfast?
Journal 2005 07 27
What Did I Do Before Breakfast?
Yesterday I asked what did each of us accomplish by lunch. Today, the question posed to us by Captain Lewis and his party is what did we do before breakfast?
“We set out at an early hour and proceeded on but slowly the current still so rapid that the men are in a continual state of their utmost exertion to get on, and they begin to weaken fast from this continual state of violent exertion.” At 9:00am Lewis and his party reach Three Forks. Lewis recognizes the significance of their arrival at this geographic marker and stops the party for breakfast and closer examination.
The Three Rivers area is a broad valley surrounded by mountains and is a beautiful location. Lewis gained high ground, noted a good location for a fortress, and determined to camp and let the men rest until Captain Clark returned. After he breakfasted, Lewis set out for more exploration and found the note Captain Clark left and determined his time would be best spent fixing the latitude and longitude of this location because it appeared to be an “essential point”.
About 3:00pm Clark and his four men return. Clark has a high fever, chills and pain in all his muscles. “This morning notwithstanding his indisposition he pursued his intended rout…about 8 miles and finding no recent sign of Indians test about an hour and came down the middle fork to this place.”
Lewis informs the men of his decision to spend at least a couple of days in camp here at Three Forks. The men immediately start soaking their deerskins for dressing the next day and set out about caring for the cargo they are transporting.
At this point, Lewis notes “considerable anxiety with rispect to the Snake Indians.” He writes that they are several hundred miles within the bosom of this wilderness and game is likely to soon become scarce, they have no idea how far the mountains extend, no idea to the best passage through the mountains and no horses to replace their canoes as cargo carriers.
Lewis demonstrates that visionaries are also pragmatic and realistic. He is able to assess and understand the veracity of their situation and its rational ramifications. He concludes his thoughts this way. “…however I still hope for the best,…my two principal consolations are that from our present position it is impossible that the S.W. fork can head with the waters of any other river but the Columbia, and that if any Indians can subsist in the form of a nation in these mountains with the means they have of acquiring food we can also subsist.”
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. (Hebrews 11:8)
Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 12:1)
We are to live with the same rational view of our world, but the hope of glory based on the heroes of the faith that have lived in the promise and acted on the promise and revealed to us that if they could live life in His Kingdom we can expect the same life in His Kingdom.
What Did I Do Before Breakfast?
Yesterday I asked what did each of us accomplish by lunch. Today, the question posed to us by Captain Lewis and his party is what did we do before breakfast?
“We set out at an early hour and proceeded on but slowly the current still so rapid that the men are in a continual state of their utmost exertion to get on, and they begin to weaken fast from this continual state of violent exertion.” At 9:00am Lewis and his party reach Three Forks. Lewis recognizes the significance of their arrival at this geographic marker and stops the party for breakfast and closer examination.
The Three Rivers area is a broad valley surrounded by mountains and is a beautiful location. Lewis gained high ground, noted a good location for a fortress, and determined to camp and let the men rest until Captain Clark returned. After he breakfasted, Lewis set out for more exploration and found the note Captain Clark left and determined his time would be best spent fixing the latitude and longitude of this location because it appeared to be an “essential point”.
About 3:00pm Clark and his four men return. Clark has a high fever, chills and pain in all his muscles. “This morning notwithstanding his indisposition he pursued his intended rout…about 8 miles and finding no recent sign of Indians test about an hour and came down the middle fork to this place.”
Lewis informs the men of his decision to spend at least a couple of days in camp here at Three Forks. The men immediately start soaking their deerskins for dressing the next day and set out about caring for the cargo they are transporting.
At this point, Lewis notes “considerable anxiety with rispect to the Snake Indians.” He writes that they are several hundred miles within the bosom of this wilderness and game is likely to soon become scarce, they have no idea how far the mountains extend, no idea to the best passage through the mountains and no horses to replace their canoes as cargo carriers.
Lewis demonstrates that visionaries are also pragmatic and realistic. He is able to assess and understand the veracity of their situation and its rational ramifications. He concludes his thoughts this way. “…however I still hope for the best,…my two principal consolations are that from our present position it is impossible that the S.W. fork can head with the waters of any other river but the Columbia, and that if any Indians can subsist in the form of a nation in these mountains with the means they have of acquiring food we can also subsist.”
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. (Hebrews 11:8)
Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 12:1)
We are to live with the same rational view of our world, but the hope of glory based on the heroes of the faith that have lived in the promise and acted on the promise and revealed to us that if they could live life in His Kingdom we can expect the same life in His Kingdom.
posted by @2007 Dick Cinkovich | 1:47 PM
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