Summit Ministries

I was NOT ready for the alarm to go off this morning. I think everybody who went rafting or hiking yesterday probably felt the same way. But amazingly enough, almost everybody managed to drag themselves out of bed in time for chocolate chip pancakes and morning devotions.
Now, I'm not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but the mornings here are beautiful. I can open the window and see the early morning sunlight hitting Red Mountain and smell the air (I know that sounds kind of odd, but it smells AMAZING in the morning), and I wonder how anybody could see the overwhelming beauty of creation and still think that there's no purpose for all of it. That was actually what we talked about in the first lecture this morning, how the very existence of the universe implies a Creator.
Crazy cool stuff happens to you every day here. Whether I'm going downtown and eating a sandwich so good I can't even pronounce the name of it, making friends from the Netherlands while sitting on the counter in the laundry room, or like tonight when God decided to punctuate Dr. Noebel's lecture with a perfectly timed thunderstorm.
God is everywhere here. You can't get away from Him. It's almost annoying. He's lurking behind every weird-shaped rock and speaking through every half-serious card game and conversation, making sure you know He loves you.
Love in Him,