Here we go again!

So, I guess that I am not too good at this blogging thing. I set up this blog a little over a year ago. I did some entries and then there was a giant pause. Someone from our church family has repeatedly told me that they check back with my blog regularly to see if I have written anything new and everytime they do, there is still that same blog there from last April talking about waiting for our baby to be born. Now Makenna is 8 months old and that is still my last blog. I guess it is fitting that it was a blog on waiting. Anyway, because this person challenged me to get back into the blogging game, I am going to try again. My plan, at this point, is to blog at least once a week. So, if you haven't already given up, then come on back and try again and I will try to make sure you are not looking at the same blog for 8 months.

But if this is going to work, then I am going to have to hear back from some of you. I want to blog about the kinds of things you want to read about. So please let me know your thoughts. Are you looking for more devotional thoughts, or funny stories, or current events editorials, or calendar information or something totally different? Please give me your feedback.

For today's blog, I thought I would talk about my trip back to Colorado. My family and I recently returned from Colorado, where we spent the Christmas break. Many people go to Colorado in the winter to ski. I go there to visit my family. My dad and mom, along with my brother, and my sister and her family all live in Colorado Springs. So we try to get back there every year and a half. My wife and I used to live out there, and it is a beautiful place to live. It is sunny most days and the view of Pikes Peak takes your breath away. If you have never visited Colorado Springs, it is a wonderful place to go. And if you do go, then one place you need to check out is Garden of the Gods. It is a beautiful park at the base of Pikes Peak with amazing rock formations. You can drive through and take in the beauty or stop and get out of the car and stretch your legs over the many miles of hiking trails they have.

It has become a tradition for my son Jacob and me to go for a hike for a few hours at Garden of the Gods, whenever we are back in Colorado. Our favorite place to hike to is called the Siamese Twins. It is a rock formation that you don't see from the road. You have to hike back into it. It is up on the top of one of the bluffs. (By the way, if you don't know what a bluff is, it is a high steep hill that would pass for a mountain out here in Indiana, but doesn't come close in Colorado) At the top of the bluff is this beautiful red rock formation with two towers that rise up, that are almost identical and are attached at the bottom and then again about halfway up. So in between the parts where they are attached, there is a window where you can look through the rock formation and see Pikes Peak in the distance. Jacob and I always like to take each other's picture there sitting in the window ledge.

I took another picture of Jacob on that trip and it was of him just sitting on a rock, with his head in his hands gazing out over the beautiful scenery. It is a great picture, with Jacob looking lost in thought. I guess that is one of the main reasons I like Garden of the Gods. I like the picturesque beauty that reminds me of the power and imagination of our Father in Heaven who created this world. It is funny that the park was named Garden of the Gods. I know, and hopefully you know too, that there is only one God. He is awesome and powerful and mighty and able to do immeasurably more than all we could ever ask or think. And one look at some of the amazing scenery He has created, reminds us just how awesome He is.

I don't know if you will ever get out to Colorado Springs to see the Siamese Twins for yourself. But if you do, I want to encourage you to take some time and recognize that all of that beauty was created by our Father in Heaven.