Twenty-year-old Lygon
Stevens, an experienced mountaineer, had reached the summits of Mt. McKinley,
Mt. Rainier, four Andean peaks in Ecuador, and 39 of Colorado’s highest
mountains. “I climb because I love the mountains,” she said, “and I meet God
there.” In January 2008, Lygon died in an avalanche while climbing Little Bear
Peak in southern Colorado with her brother Nicklis, who survived.
When her parents discovered
her journals, they were deeply moved by the intimacy of her walk with Christ.
“Always a shining light for Him,” her mother said, “Lygon experienced a depth
and honesty in her relationship with the Lord, which even seasoned veterans of
faith long to have.”
In Lygon’s final journal
entry, written from her tent 3 days before the avalanche, she said: “God is
good, and He has a plan for our lives that is greater and more blessed than the
lives we pick out for ourselves, and I am so thankful about that. Thank You,
Lord, for bringing me this far and to this place. I leave the rest—my future—in
those same hands and say thank You.”
Lygon echoed these words
from the psalmist: “My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and
earth” (Ps. 121:2).
We can trust our all-knowing God for the unknown future. (RBC)
