Colorado

After leaving Ames, we traveled to Ft. Collins and enjoyed some fellowship time with the college group that was meeting that night. We all went to our respective homes that night and were picked up by Tom in the morning for a trip into the Rocky Mountains. I have visited Estes Park once before, when I was 17 and my youth group went to a teen conference. It was an incredible experience then, and all the more now. We spent the entire day hiking trails, climbing giant rocks, and soaking in the beauty of God's creation. Oftentimes, I felt speechless as I gazed over hundreds of miles of hazy blue sky and distant mountain ranges. Words and pictures cannot do this part of the world justice. I sat, mesmorized, on a cliff next to a roaring water fall, Alberta Falls. Sitting next to the deafening waters made me consider how much more vast must Niagra Falls be than this, and how incredibly awesome and powerful a God we serve who spoke this earth into existence.

Psalm 65:5-8: You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas, who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength, who stilled the roaring of the sea, the roaring of the waves, and the turmoil of the nations. The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy.