Carrie's Monologue

Helen,

I trust you have arrived at Carrie’s and are all settled in. Your stay in this small town creates space between the beauty of the Serra Nevada Mountains and an entirely different kind of beauty which you will experience in the city of San Francisco. It is kind of like cleansing your pallet between courses. Enjoy.

I know you have a couple of more hours of driving before you turn your in your car, but I wanted to tell you how proud I am of what you have accomplished driving back and forth across the state of California. You had mentioned some people at home were nervous about your driving all that way by yourself. You many have even been a little anxious yourself, but I never doubted your ability.

I remember sitting across the dinner table on the night we met, listening to you tell your story and how you were walking through it, and feeling proud of you. I felt our Heavenly Father was allowing me to see you as He does. I guess it is because of the memory of the women I saw setting across from me at the table that I had so much confidence in your ability to make this trip.
That is the definition of the word courageous. I could see it back then in how you were walking through the pain of that season and it has shown itself again as you have made your way across the state. You are a courageous woman Helen Armstrong, and oh what places you have been able to explore and what beauty you witnessed because of