The LORD Of The Mountains

Dear Byron,

You will remember that in my last note I mentioned our second home in Colorado. Your Mommy says she's happy that we've not sold that house yet. She wants you to be able to play in the snow maybe next winter. I'm all for playing in the snow. Perhaps we can arrange for that to happen whether we sell this house or not. Right now, though, there's not a flake of snow in sight. Here's what we saw yesterday as we sat on our front deck here in Pagosa Springs.

View from our front deck

If you look closely you can just make out the mountains, but everything is very hazy. That's because the mountains have been covered with smoke these past couple days. Because of this some folks around here are asking if fires have again broken out in the mountains of Colorado. I was worried about that as well, so I did a search of the weather sites on my computer. I learned that the haze is caused not by fires here in Colorado, but by fires in states further west. The wind is bringing the smoke eastward. We have no more fires here. The summer mountain monsoons, as they're called, keep the mountains wet with fresh rain almost every day. As a result, we have no more fires. 

Well, Byron, that gives you just a little taste of what life is like here at 7,000+ feet up in the mountains in the summer time. Perhaps one day you will get to hike and camp and even hunt in the same mountains. And perhaps you will, like your parents and grandparents, get to go skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing in these mountains in the winter. Always lots of things to do in the great outdoors. 

One thing I do hope you will do. I  hope you will get outside the city in which you grow up and spend time every year in the beauty and wonder of the outdoors. Only in that way will you be able to appreciate the wonders of God's creation. 

The psalmist puts it well when he writes about the LORD. 

From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart. The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees. The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers. ... O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. - Psa 104:13-18, 24 ESV

Stay well, dear Byron. Give our love to your Mommy and Daddy.

We love you too,

GGPa