Last time, we talked about how God is with us all the time – both on the trail and if we get off the trail, guiding us back to the right path. Whether we can feel Him or not,…
God With Us
We’re celebrating Christmas in less than another week. It’s a very exciting time around here; so many piles of packages, the Christmas tree in the living room, not to mention Christmas baking, opening Christmas cards, singing Christmas carols, and reading…
Trusting God in the Wilderness
Another element of increasing our trust in God in the wilderness is the fact that there is so much outside of our control – the weather, the trail, wild animals, random hikers, and so on and so forth. There are…
The Wilderness Teaches Trust
The wilderness gives us an opportunity to learn to trust God, to trust others, and to trust ourselves. Last week, I wrote about my own crisis of trust on Mt. Agassiz. Sometimes we find the healing of former distrustful situations…
Learning to Trust
One day on our last trip to the western US, we decided to hike Mt. Agassiz. It’s a 12,400ft. peak in in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. The peak is best known for being climbed from Naturalist Basin, the premier…
Nature Worshipers are Looking for God
Last week, I wrote of how we can meet with the same God in church or in the wilderness. The revelation may be a bit different, but it’s still the same Creator of the Universe. For centuries, the Christians have…
Wilderness or Church?
I read a quote on Facebook the other day that went something like this: “I go walking in nature because there I feel what I never felt in church.” At first glance, I was tempted to be offended. How can…
New Territory Means New Muscles
We are very intricately made objects. Our bodies work beyond the understanding of even the most brilliant doctors of this world. They can explain things, but even after centuries of studies, they still don’t understand every function of the human…
He Fills the Hungry with Good Things
I’ve been posting quite a bit about how people view the desert as a poor place to be – a place of dryness and unfulfillment; of heat and drought and sorrow. It’s true that the Bible talks about the desert…
Spiritual Killers in the Wilderness
To continue from last week… just because we are in a “desert” or on a “mountaintop” in our spiritual journey doesn’t mean that one or the other is easier or that one is less of an adventure. Everything we do…