Take it ALL in!

This blog has an original reference to Friday 22 January, 2010. Sorry it took me so long to finish it. Hope you enjoy!

Friday night was a great night... Mainly at the wee hours of the night, early morning when we decided to go sledding at Rock Canyon Park with some mission buddies. It was one of those things that you have to do at least once while you are in college, if not more. It was a lot of fun to be out in the middle of the night, enjoying life. But the thing that I took away from the whole thing was something rather spiritual.

After going up and down the hill a few times, we gathered at the top and sat down on our various sledding devices we talked and joked around, throwing some snowballs here and there. Being a little past one in the morning I leaned back to rest for a few seconds and looked up into the partly cloudy night sky. That is when it happened. There is something about looking up into the night sky and starring up into the immensity of space. I just felt something over come me. This whole world, this whole life, is far more than I can image. This whole plan that God created and set in motion thousands and thousands of years ago is so far out of my comprehension that I can’t even begin to wrap my head around it all. With God being the ruler of it all it is even farther out of my understanding how one person (well one God) can hear and answer everyone’s prayers, understand everyone’s problems, fully and completely understand the pain, the heartache, the exquisite joy, and everything else in between that we feel.

I know I started out by saying that there are some things that you should do at least once in college, well, to be honest, there is some things that you should do not just in college, but all through out your life, and some of it is just taking in nature. Whether it be looking into the night sky, going on a hike through the forest, watching the sunrise or sunset, or just stopping and letting yourself just take it all in. You can feel it, something close, something that just comes over you. I don’t know how it feels for everyone, I can hardly explain it for myself. But it is something that makes me feel like I am not alone out here. That there is something bigger and greater and grander out there.