DAY 53: "Babbling Brooks and Whispering Pines..."

DAY 53:  Mt. Evans, Colorado
TEMP:  High: 76 Low: 55

"If God had wanted to be a big secret, 

He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines."  

~Robert Brault

And babbling brooks and whispering pines we experienced today!

We rode to the top of Mt. Evans today.....the highest paved road in the US.......and a mountain that can be seen for over 100 miles in each direction.  Imagine that, my friends from East Texas or Oklahoma or Ft. Worth.....Imagine being able to see a mountain located in Dallas from your front yard.  Crazy cool, huh??!!

Maybe its just where I am right now in my spiritual walk, or maybe its truly a magical place, I don't know......but I cannot help when I'm driving through the forests, then above the tree line.....and then passing through the snow lined road.....and seeing the bighorn sheep grazing on the side of the road as if we didn't exist....and the deer gawking at us as if  they  were the hunters......to realize that God actually "spoke" each of these things into existence.   That's simply mind-boggling to me......

Today the beauty was magnificant....which isn't even a proper word to describe it.  We passed Echo Lake, which was like a mirror  to the mountains surrounding it; we saw mountain goats grazing within a few feet of us looking as tame as Murphy and Molly (well, actually "tamer" than Murphy and Molly!) as well as mule deer and marmots (a rodent similar to a beaver but without the tail).  

We both felt the presence of God today.......

But we also felt hail, rain, wind and sleet while heading down this gorgeous mountain.......just like we ALL feel in our every day lives......

And we've been rockin' back and forth all evening from the ferocious hurricane-force winds hitting the side of the RV as we're perched on the edge of this mountaintop.......all six of us lumped in the bed together (Chuck and I, Murphy, Molly, Kruger the 1-Claw Cat and Mr. Bill....Murphy's little security blanket doll) safe from the outside storm; safe in our Father's arms.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: 

not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

C.S. Lewis