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Restoration and Refreshment
Acts 3.17-26

I remember a hot, hot walk in the Scottish highlands. (It’s true: there are times, even at altitudes of 4,000 feet, when you can be just as hot in Scotland as anywhere in Europe.) We climbed Braeriach and Cairn Toul, the third and fourth highest mountains in the British Isles, on a cloudless and windless day, and walking at a good pace, too.

For the last few miles back down the path we fantasized about how it would be when we got back to camp. There would be water to wash in, a stream where we could cool down our feet after we’d taken our boots off; there would be tea and food . . . but most of all we wanted something cold to drink. (We’d long since gone through the water we’d brought with us.) Only a few more miles . . . and then, what was this? A Land-Rover was coming up the track towards us. It was one of the camp staff...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 1 by Tom Wright

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