God of wonders.

I think it’s time for a post.

Hello to all you French trip peoples, though you probably won’t read this until you come back home. I miss you all and pray for your safety. Hope you guys are having fun.

Got back from Canadia on Tuesday. The weather was mostly cold and rainy. It’s nice to have at least one rainy day, but five or six is a bit too many, in my opinion. Fishing was really good. We had two succulent walleye dinners, and i caught a five pound bass. That was fun. Best, though, was simply being able to sit and read what I want. It’s been an entire school year since I’ve had the time to lose myself in the novel of my choice without having to annotate, analyze, mark, and write and essay with it. I read nine and a half books in ten days. Simply delicious.

I really missed you guys last week. Besides fish and read, there isn’t much to do. But I love that place so much. God’s presence is everywhere, but there are very few places where His glory flows so clearly in all your surroundings. I think the Colorado Rockies is the only place on earth that brings me to such a tremendous wonder. Who would think to put pink in the sky? Who would pile the clouds so high on top of one another that they look heavy, and yet glad? How would a beaver know to build a dam without someone to teach it? And why would a simple human be called away from all modern conveniences into the wilderness and be astounded by it? For that is one of the greater evidences for a personal God, the fact that humans have a desire to behold and wonder at nature, and nature makes us crave more. If we are indeed products of mere accident in nature, why would we desire more than our environment, more than is supplied to us? Nature supplies all our needs. Everything we crave-food, shelter, company-is provided by nature, except that uniquely human desire for a purpose. For a god.

If created things like the sky and water display a splendor this magnificent, how much more astounding will the perfect heaven be, when we see God face to face? “Now we know only in part, then we shall know fully…”

The colorado trip is in less than a week. This is my third time. I think the most challenging thing about that trip is realizing the astounding greatness of God. I’m ready. I’m excited.