Heights of the Hills

"In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also" (Psalm 95:4)

Dear Friends,

As many of you may know Asher Kaufman, age 18, left on June 28 for a year-long trip to help spread the Children's Rosary in Europe and Africa. He is spending July in the French Alps at La Salette Shrine. Primarily he is assigned to volunteering at their welcome desk but he has also been helping in the housekeeping section of the Shrine making beds and in the kitchen washing dishes. After making 50 beds his first day, he happily reported he knows how to make a hospital corner properly. 

As La Salette is a pilgrimage site he has had the opportunity to meet many pilgrims and priests and share with them about the Children's Rosary. After six days of work volunteers at the Shrine are given a day off. Each day there is an excursion to various villages in the region. Only those on a day off can travel to the excursion. Last Friday Asher went on one of these excursions. 

The village was on the mountain next to the shrine but on the far side of the mountain. As the crow flies, it was 14 kms but it took them 1 hour by car to arrive there. As they approached the village they saw a group of people walking with some purpose across a field. 

At first they thought they might be looking for something and one person joked that they were looking for gold. But once Asher arrived, he did speak with this group and found out they were botanists from Grenoble taking plant samples from the mountain. 

This small village had a swift moving river running through it. The views are beautiful and give glory to God for all He has made. "In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also" (Psalm 95:4).

Please keep Asher and this trip in your prayers. May it be fruitful.

Thank you,

Blythe