Climb high, Sleep low

Now I don’t have to tell you this, but please indulge me.  Life is hectic!  It does not always travel down the path we have made for it, no matter how meticulously we have prepared the way.  I don’t believe that I ever forgot this fact, but I was sure aware of it a couple months ago.  December was a chaotic month for me, but my wife and I did manage a vacation to Denver.  It was fun but very, very busy.  On one of our last days there we got to drive up into the mountains, to The Rocky Mountain National Park.  In Denver that morning it was approximately 50 degrees (balmy), and from Denver it is about an hour and a half drive to Estes Park which is the town right outside of the National Park.  The weather in Estes Park was 36 degrees and drizzle.  At the entrance to the National Park it was 33 degrees and the snow was very wet, but by the time we reached our final destination in the park it was 31 degrees the snow was dry and the wind was gusting at 15 mph.  Not only was the snow falling but it was being picked up off of the ground by the wind, a proverbial blizzard, especially for a Texas boy.  By the time we got back to Denver it was 60 degrees and there was no trace of precipitation.

                Some times life is unpredictable, and sometimes we predict life.  We knew that there was a possibility of snow in the mountains.  We had the opportunity to turn around at any time, but we chose to push forward.  Life gives us warning signs when we are pushing too hard.  We all have our Estes Parks.  Most of us choose to push past them.  Maybe it is our pride or we are too caught up in life to recognize them.  The important thing to remember, no matter where you are on the drive, is that God is in control, and even when we push past the place He wants us to be, He has a retreat for us in our own Denver.