Coming to the Still Waters

  Let me describe to you where this squinting person is at.  The sign in the background tells of another hairpin curve on the Trail Ridge Road that is closed to traffic over the winter months.  I have made it up to turn number 5 as indicated on the sign.  My goal was the Farview Curve Overlook but I ran out of time.  A 7 mile round trip at this point and 900 feet in elevation gain.  It is a unique way to see the snow capped Never Summer Mountain Range.  It was so blinding white that I was thankful for grabbing my sunglasses before I left.   This last shot gives some perspective of the elevation gained from the valley below.  I have been logging this hikes on a new trail map for 2025 and also on my Facebook page to have a record of where I have been.   Back in the saddle as they say after 2 weeks out of the pulpit at Stillwater.  We were back at our in depth look at the first coming of Christ.  This Sunday we started t...

  This is my view from upfront.  It is a " sea " of green.  Maybe it is a reminder that it will look this way outside after the long hard winter.  All the Christmas decorations are down but we are not through our detailed account of the 1st coming of Christ.  We will probably finish up sometime in February after we return from our vacation.   I have found that real life applications show up in the unfolding of the true events of Christmas.  This passage is no exception.  We come face to face that what God said came to be both in the form of near and far prophecy.  The far prophecy was His words through the prophet Malachi 400 years prior to the Israelites that a messenger would come before the coming Messiah.  The near prophecy was His words through the angel Gabriel 9 months prior to Zechariah that the son born to Elizabeth was that messenger.   It is this example along with many others in the pages of the Bible gives us ...