Holler For Adventures: Dead Man Raised.

Tunes to start you off:
Good Good Father- Housefires
Running To You- Shane and Shane

I need to admit something. Sometimes even at 28 I feel I get into this mentality that I've "seen it all". I have gotten in these minds sets that basically my flesh and my eyes are tired and I think that there could not possibly be anything greater or more awing to see than what I have already witnessed in these past years of adventuring around the world.

I was humbled last week...

My final course of the Summer consisted of meeting up with First Presbyterian Church youth students who were from Houston Texas, in Grand Teton National Park. I can tell you from the very beginning this course was not like the rest of SROM's courses. It was rather opposite of what we do yet God works in all things and not only were students greatly impacted but we as instructors were also impacted.

"3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by Gods power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:3-5

"All People are like grass,
and all their glory is like flowers in a field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of the Lord endures forever." 1Peter 1:24-25

The inheritance is far, far greater than Patagonia fleeces, than souveniers, stickers and even far greater than any of the views we will ever experience in our short time on earth. It will be sweeter than any lovely stream, ocean, mountain, trout or salmon caught. For all these things bow at His name.

"You are more radiant with light, more majestic than mountains rich with game"- Psalm 76:4

"Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God."-Psalm 90:2

"He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to man kind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth- The Lord God Almighty is his name."- Amos 4:13

"The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it." Nahum 1:5

It's so hard for me to comprehend this truth. But it is with in the reminders of His glorious majesty in these mountains, lakes and waterfalls this week that I am reminded, humbled and giddy to know that all of this pales in comparison to who my God is.

Thank you Jesus for showing me glimpses of your majesty within your creation that we climb and play on as well as showing us glimpses of yourself within each other through the exploration of your creation and the creation within each of us.

Between hikes, Bison, Geysers, swimming holes, sunsets and mountain peaks I have been reminded that until I go home, That feeling of awe will never be fulfilled here but instead my soul will continue to long for His glory. My soul will continue to seek and accept in wonder and awe of the sites he sets in front of me. Mountains, people, all or it.