Heather and I went on another hike with the Mt. Olympus Presbyterian hiking group Thursday, on Mill B North Fork Trail to Overlook about five miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon. That wasn’t enough to satiate our appetite for the outdoors. The following day, we drove to the Stansbury Mountains (North Willow Canyon) to camp out [...]
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We came, we saw, we camped.
Posted in God, Utah, food, friendship, music, nature, psalms on July 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
hike to Donut Falls in Big Cottonwood Canyon
Posted in Utah, friendship, nature, psalms on July 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Today after work Heather and I had a hilarious, scary, adventurous hike. It was probably—simultaneously—our least favorite hike and our favorite hike. I would write about it all, but I don’t know that it would be as funny to anyone else. All I remember was when I almost peed myself laughing because I was paralyzed [...]
beautiful hike to Dog Lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon
Posted in God, Utah, family, nature, prayer, psalms on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I really needed to be alone with God today, and going on a quiet hike usually helps. When I’m not concentrating on my footing, my panting, or my impending death by rattlesnakes, I can pray. That’s what I did tonight, for a two-hour hike to Dog Lake. I got the idea from my friend’s blog [...]
This time I took pictures.
Posted in God, Utah, nature, psalms on March 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Doesn’t it look like you can just reach up and brush the cloud ceiling with your fingers?
Yeah…there’s the smog.
How rugged do I look in this picture? Not rugged enough.
We tried to get to Ensign Peak, where Brigham Young overlooked the view of the valley and confirmed that “this is the right place” to settle. But [...]
even the rocks cry out
Posted in Alaska, God, music, nature, psalms on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In Dad’s children sermon this morning, he asked the kids what they thought it would sound like for rocks, mountains, and streams to praise God. After all, that’s what Psalm 148 talks about. (Psalm 148 was part of today’s lectionary.) But what does that sound like? Dad admitted he himself doesn’t know.
I thought about this [...]
Advent begins—let’s get ready to wait
Posted in psalms on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Psalm 130
A song of ascents.
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
2 O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared.
5 I [...]
born-again/always-born
Posted in God, family, psalms on November 20, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I used to think there was something wrong with me when I couldn’t remember a specific event at which I became a Christian, or “gave my heart to Jesus.” The truth was, I couldn’t remember a time when I didn’t have a relationship with God. I was talking to my boss and the bishop of [...]
this was my church service
Posted in God, Utah, nature, prayer, psalms on September 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Psalm 121
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over you
will neither slumber nor [...]
sand
Posted in God, psalms on August 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
—Psalm 139:17 (NIV)
If God’s thoughts are anything like grains of sand, then God’s thoughts have the potential to infiltrate. They will infiltrate your mouth, your ears, your eyes, your rug, [...]
who am I that You are mindful of me?
Posted in God, books, nature, prayer, psalms, tagged Philip Yancey, prayer, PRAYER: Does It Make Any difference? on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I am currently reading Philip Yancey’s book PRAYER: Does It Make Any Difference?. I have also read his Reaching for the Invisible God, The Jesus I Never Knew, and some of What’s So Amazing About Grace?. The first few pages of PRAYER reminded me of how God is so much bigger than the universe…how, [...]
