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The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. Ps 111:2
Hiking can and is done everywhere in urban, rural and wilderness contexts but it is the wilderness that draws and produces the most profound sense of wonder and awe. The whisper of creation can be sensed in an autumn leaf plucked from an asphalt parking lot but it crescendos and cannot be silenced under the canopy of an old growth forest.
It is in the wilderness that the handiwork of God is most apparent. What is so often easy to miss on a city street simply can’t be ignored standing on the precipice of 1000 ft. overlook. Every twist of the trail brings into view another wonder of creation, from a wind twisted juniper to a 10 story tall Ponderosa pine. Amazing things are seen in the rocks underfoot and stretches out past the horizon to the columns of the Grand Canyon.
Once the “works of God” have been experienced, a person must seek them out again. First because most of our life is too mundane and void of anything even close to wonder and secondly, because in the cacophony of a busy life it is too easy to lose track of that still small voice that God often uses to say He has not forgotten His world and those who dwell on it.
We seek out the works of God not just because they are great but because they fill us with a pleasure that is innate in themselves, a joy and a peace that reminds us of our Creator and the beautiful world he has surrounded us with.
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