May 2026 · Zion
Theme: Toward Zion | John 10:10
7 pilgrims · 5 days
We came toward Zion looking for more. Jesus showed us the “more” was already ours.
It is the fullness He came to give. The deep roots that hold in hard ground. The slow, holy work of being refined in the very place you wanted to leave. Sometimes the wilderness we are most ready to escape is the soil where He grows us most.
Our May 2026 pilgrimage to Zion was an invitation to lean in. To stop straining toward something better out ahead and start receiving the abundant life He offers right here. To stay planted, to let Him refine us, and to trust that no matter where we stand, the life He came to give is already ours.
Made Full in the Valley
Seven women came to Zion carrying different weights. Different griefs. Different seasons of waiting and weariness that had stretched on far too long.
But they came. And simply stepping away from the noise to seek Him, worn thin and honest about it, was its own quiet miracle.
We opened God's Word together in some of the most beautiful places on earth. On canyon floors. Beside still water. In the valley, in the early light before the trails filled with other footsteps.
John 10:10 promises a life lived to the full. Not someday at the summit, but here, in the valley, in the very season we are walking through. Some of us never reached the top of the mountain and found that His presence had never been waiting up there. It was already with us, the whole way. That is what these women found. In the slowing down. In the healing. In the breaking of chains.
Seven women arrived empty. They left full, and no longer alone.
In Her Own Words
Tanya came to Zion carrying deep loss and grief. What happened in the quiet of the canyon is hers to tell. We are honored to be trusted with her journey, and grateful to share it with you. Press play, and let her show you what abundant life can look like, even in the valley.
More Than a Hike
Our days moved to our WILD rhythm, built to honor both body and soul: walking in worship, igniting faith, leaning on community, dwelling in God's Word.
A typical day flowed like this: Sunrise worship · A silent hike into the canyon · God's Word on the trail · The Resting in the Word meditation · Dinner together · Evening testimony
But it was in the moments between that God so often showed up.
A line of women moving in silence on the morning hike, only footsteps, wind and the slow awareness that God was speaking. A circle of pilgrims gathered back at the lodge as the day wound down, gone still for the meditation. Psalm 23 read over them while tired bodies came to rest and weary souls were restored.
1 Kings 19 reminded us that Elijah ran to the wilderness emptied and worn down, ready to give up, and God met him right there, with food, water, rest, and a still small voice. He does the same today, meeting us in the very place we are, not the place we wish we were.
Ephesians 6 reminded us to be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power, not by summoning our own strength but by standing firm right where He has planted us.
God met every one of them exactly where they were.
Seven women. Rooted deep. Made full. Never alone
“I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.”
John 10:10
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