A warm summer’s night, a weathered hemlock dock, stars so close you believe you can reach out and touch them. The Milky Way, hauntingly a shadowy band of glimmering light against the night sky, a friend to share the majesty of this show with. Together following satellites, looking for that one, which we will watch as it crosses the sky and then disappears. We then time it, knowing it takes about 90 minutes to circle our small earth, and then, there it is again. Wow!
It is not an easy walk through a fallow field. It is even more challenging when you are eight and following your father with much longer strides . . .
The full moon shone bright and clear, mining sparkling diamonds from newly fallen snow. It was a cold one and the valley had been bracing for subzero temperatures, that was expected to last through into the New Year of 1935.
Recently I was given the verse Proverbs 25: 2 by a special friend. One translation says it this way:
“God delights in concealing things.”
I have been reflecting on this verse, . . .
This same Director also shared with me about Joshua standing and looking into the Promised Land after a lifetime of journeying, which I have been reflecting on up here at Whistler. It was a land that had been prepared for the Israelites. It was a land that Joshua had some knowledge about, though very minimal. It was a land that God would direct . . .
In his book “Embers – One Ojibway’s Meditations”, Richard Wagamese writes of a great teaching he learned about life from a Woman Elder. My wife has First Nations Status with her roots in the Ojibway nation, she shared this with me. When Wagamese asked this woman about the greatest teaching in life, she responded “You have to make your own moccasins.”
I want to live a Psalm 23rd life for the years I have left. If Jesus really is my Shepherd, and with me 24/7, do I want this? For if I answer this honestly, and say yes, my life is going to be different and that coincides with one of my words for 2024. Different! However, . . .
. . . I will be sharing from my journey in this room. I will expand upon what I am “unlearning” from this new vantage point.
