“Bush walkers safe and well,” it says on the front page of our local paper, The Northland Age. (May 13, 2018)

NOT FAR FROM OUR HOUSE: Sun, clouds and trees.

That “there is no substitute for being prepared,” is the “good advice” a Senior Sergeant is giving.

There are lots of walking tracks here in New Zealand. I walked a short one only last Tuesday in Mangonui.

Five women from the capital (Auckland) went on a long walk on Saturday here in the north of New Zealand. They were on a bush walk in the Mangamukas. But the walk was too much for them. They had to ask for help and be rescued. New Zealand is a very treacherous  country, even for the Kiwis. (People who live here.)

For all of us the walk “through the darkest valley ” is coming sooner or later. The question is: “ARE WE PREPARED?”

Can we say with David:

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”