A collection of mountain themes in my journaling and life.



Let's begin in my blue journal from 2008.

[9.8.08] 

The mountain road is hard and the cliffs are steep. Thank you for the humble road, thank you for the view.

[9.27.08] 

In response to Psalm 42: Let me be on the mountain so that I am drawn to you, mountain and mission.

I prayed, pleaded, begged that the Lord of Life would bring my path through mountains, so that every day would bring me to my knees. And He delivered.

I wrote this post somewhere in the middle of realizing my journey. Then this one, when I thought I was nearing the end of hardship.


More recently, I've been reading and finished the Biblical book of Joshua.

It was recommended to me by a co-worker, and it was fabulous (save for those confusing parts about land alloted inheritances that I don't know how to understand let alone appropriate.) It's a beautiful story and just what I needed.

I'm still reflecting on the book as a whole, but the themes go something like this:

- God has mighty plans to accomplish and He'll use anyone He pleases to do so.

- If we are invited to join His mission, we are called to be very brave and very courageous.

- God has an inheritance, a guaranteed good thing, set aside for us. In order to get to it, we must follow Him and be faithful when the going gets rough and we loose hope.

- Two defined ways to stay faithful are obedience and reverence for God's Law.

- God's mission will be accomplished no matter what.

- He wants us on that journey and He desires to give us our inheritance.

In the middle of the book, in one of those sections about land allotment, a man named Caleb asks for the hill country to be his inheritance. He asks for the land that will be the most difficult. While reading, I remembered how my biggest fear used to be straying from God and in response I prayed, pleaded, begged that the Lord of Life would bring my path through mountains, so that every day would bring me to my knees. And He delivered.


[9.27.08]
"Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it." ... "Thou my inheritance now and always."

To top it all off, Psalm 42 was even a devotion reading for this week's liturgy.

Isn't it something?
To be on a path for quite a while and then
be granted the vantage to see where you've been?
And isn't it something to see
answered prayers,
years in the making?