"Part your heavens, O Lord, and come down;touch the mountains, so that they smoke."
Appropriate Psalm for Smoky Mountain hikers. And it's why I love climbing the mountains. For me, they are God touched. I see God in my body as it travels the trials. The amazing ability of the body to accommodate heat to sweat and cool itself and to move without the benefit of transportation outside itself. It's amazing how many miles you can cover in a day in foot and even more amazing what you can see and experience and feel traveling them that way. Things you can experience from inside a car. There is no better mode of transportation than on foot if your goal is truly to get there and experience a place and not time. Our desire to get to the destination rather than to experience has been a great disservice to us in the long run. There's a reason our journey with God is called a walk. Lord knows.
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