I continue to be amazed by the diversity of Colorado's geography. Earlier this week I completed a two and a half day backpacking trip into Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, perhaps the state's most rugged and remote range.
Having hiked 12 of the 54 14ers, I thought I had seen just about all the beauty Colorado had to offer at high altitude. Not that I have tired of the solitude of high mountains vistas, or the deep blues of ancient glacial lakes, or the seemingly endless views you get at 14,000 feet. I guess I expected to see all these things...I knew what they would look like...and I knew they would be beautiful.
As I have found with the other backpacking trips and outings into the wilderness, though, what I saw cannot be described with words...even the best composed photographs will never be able to capture the raw beauty of where I was. Entire books can be written and still not convey to the reader the magnificence of the beauty of our natural world. But blogs are posted, countless pictures are taken, and intimately described adventures are written to spark our imagination, to allow us to be transported to these wild places.
Suzanne, Shelby, and I are blessed to be living in Colorado, in a place whose beauty is world renowned. We are even more blessed to be able to enjoy the beauty with our good eyesight, with our working limbs, and with our healthy, but sometimes messed up, imaginations. The purpose of this post, which has changed just in the last few minutes, is to urge you, the five people that will read this post, to get outside and enjoy the beauty around you! If you think how much time you spend inside the mall shopping, in your home being lazy (which is OK), or just deciding not to go outside, you are missing out on one of the few calming and relaxing avenues we have in our crazy world. Even more important, God didn't design our natural world to be seen only in pictures, described in blogs, and written in books, He created it for us to see ourselves.
So put your Pottery Barn catalog down, your cell phone in the disposal, your makeup in the trash, and the TV clicker under your car tire, and get outside!
5 comments:
I second that!!
Love your picture Justin! You know how to capture God's creation!
I 3rd it!!!!!!!
...oh and by the way, Shelby is the most precious baby in the universe! Isn't it wonderful that God created so many "most precious gifts" -- I just hear that all the time. Keep posting updated photos of Shelby -- we can just reach out and talk to our No. 1 granddaughter.
How did you know I was reading the PB catalog???? :-)
But I agree - I heard someone say once that God makes his own visuals to accompany his lessons. Just taking a walk or heading out to the backyard and basking in God's "visuals" is SO much more relaxing than watching the Wiggles. Again.
Thanks for a great reminder to get out more often!!!
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