Peter's Path
Peter's Path
Peter
Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.
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Hiked part 4/20 of the Marskramer Path, 21.5 kilometres from Delden to Rijssen. You walk through the stream valley of the Boven- and Midden-Regge. The word regge means 'he who carries water' and impassable swamps once formed the...
Stories from many times and places show two ways of life. One way is wide and smooth like a paved road. It offers ease and pleasure. Many people choose it. Yet it leads to ruin. The other way is narrow like a footpath. It demands effort...
Happy Ascension Day to all of you. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. - Acts 1:9 Let us remember what this day truly means. Jesus ascended to heaven to...
Hiked part 3/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 17.6 kilometres from De Kwakel to Aarlanderveen. After Fort de Kwakel, part of the Defence Line of Amsterdam, you walk to the Amstel on the border of North and South Holland. Along the towpath of the...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis Miracles by C.S....
Hiked part 3/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.4 kilometres from Borne to Delden. You walk past the Carmelite monastery in Zenderen, where life behind the monastery walls still consists of simplicity and prayer. You cross even more streams:...
Why read the book? The Westminster Confession of Faith was written in 1646 by Puritan ministers at the request of the English Parliament. It is a clear summary of what the Bible teaches on the main points of the Christian faith. The...
Why read the book? John Milton wrote Paradise Lost in 1667. It is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. The poem tells how Satan and his fallen angels rebel against God and are cast out of Heaven. Satan then tempts Adam...
Hiked part 25/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 20.2 kilometres from Hoenderloo to Schaarsbergen. The final stage of the Veluwe Wander Trail led from Hoenderloo through the heath and pine woods of De Hoge Veluwe National Park, past the...
Hiked part 24/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.8 kilometres from Otterlo to Hoenderloo. Walked from Otterlo through De Hoge Veluwe National Park to Hoenderloo. The route crossed pine forest, sandy heath, beech avenues and a marsh...
Hiked part 23/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.0 kilometres from Schaarsbergen to Otterlo. A long walk through the Hoge Veluwe National Park, with woods at the start and end and wide open heath in the middle. I saw deer in the heather...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote A Preface to Paradise Lost. It began as a series of lectures given at Oxford in 1941. Lewis sets out to help readers enjoy and understand Milton’s long poem. He explains what an epic is and why Milton...
Hiked part 22/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 17.7 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Garderen. Left Hoog Soeren past thatched farms and a small chapel, then crossed the golf course into beech and pine woods. The route opened onto wide...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Letters on Living the Faith. This recent collection brings together excerpts from hundreds of his personal letters. Editor David C. Downing has chosen the most helpful parts where Lewis answers real...
Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane and walked past an old brick farmhouse dated 1788. The route then went through the Gortelsche Bos, with beech and pine...