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Oh, what a view!

Many of us have probably ridden a bike at one time or another. Isn't there a vast difference between coasting and peddling? Think of the last time you road uphill - how much more energy did you have to exert to actually get up that hill? If you are out of shape, you'd probably say it was horrendously hard! You found yourself huffing and puffing, holding onto your side which was splitting from the intense cramp you developed, and you knew for sure you'd "feel that one in the morning". Arnold Bennett was an English novelist and his opinion was that hills were meant for climbing, not coasting. Why? The best view was from the top! It shall come to pass  in the latter days  that the mountain of the house of the  Lord  shall be established as the highest of the mountains,  and it shall be lifted up above the hills;  and peoples shall flow to it,   and many nations shall come, and say:  “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the  Lord ,   to ...