Tag: hiking
-
Old Pine
I was honored this past week to officiate the funeral of my grandfather, William Obed Gillum, or as I knew him, Grampy. It was a joy-filled message celebrating his humor, his kindness, and his constancy. And over everything else, it was a privilege to point all present toward how Jesus was visible through his life.…
-
Pine needles are for kids
For Thanksgiving this year, our family stayed out in the woods outside of Arkadelphia, AR. It was a beautiful spot, secluded, quiet, and with a ton of trees. My three year old (like any reasonable three year old) upon seeing the trees and the hills and the lake below, decided he’d take off at a…
-
Saturated
This past weekend I had a short moment to take a quick hike in Robber’s Cave State Park in OK. It was not much of a hike, so much as a jaunt and a moment for a breath. It had been torrentially raining so the entire way down I could hear rivulets turning into mini…
-
These Heights are here without us
Several times in my life I’ve been on a hike out in the high places in the world, and stopped to wonder at the beauty. There’s something heart-achingly beautiful about the rocky places that wedge against the sky. What compounds this beauty is the remoteness of it. Many of these places are seen by less…
And yet, and yet... 