Showing posts with label Mountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mountain. Show all posts

Monday, May 2, 2011

Mountain Top Experience

Have you ever heard people refer to an enlightening moment as a "Mountain Top Experience?" It typically comes after one has had an epiphany of some sort. In my continual search for direction in my life I went out looking for my own "mountain top experience."
Yesterday, May 1st, was a beautiful day and it was much appreciated after the winter we have had in New England. The sun was shining and the temperatures were in the 60's-70's. There is just no way I could have sat inside all day with those types of conditions. I decided to go for a hike by myself (something I did not classify as dangerous until my way back down when I recalled a Criminal Minds episode in which people were being hunted in the woods), to Cascade Falls on Mt. Ascutney.
Since I was two I have lived with a perfect view of Mt. Ascutney. I have been hiking this mountain as long as I can remember. The hike to the falls is beautiful and I was excited to get out there after a long winter of being inside.
I brought the book "Crazy Love" along with me. Once at the falls I sat down and read for quite awhile with only the sounds of the birds and the rushing water. I didn't exactly have a moment of clarity but I was able to spend time with the amazing God that created this beautiful world.
You can't tell me, after seeing something like this, that there is no God.