Hymn for the Mountaintop

Sometimes the scariest things in life are the most rewarding. The symbol of ascending a mountain has been speaking well to me about it recently.

This is about biking eight miles up a mountain in the dark before sunrise. It's about scary journeys. It's about traveling a long way in the cold, feeling the warmth of sunrise, welcoming the morning. Cresting the canyon and seeing the glaciers and snowfields in the Western mountains. Realizing you've arrived an a place of astonishing beauty. Realizing your new life is turning out to be filled with incredible blessings.

This is about moving to Colorado.

Psalm 73:6

My flesh and my heart may fail,
   but God is the strength of my heart
   and my portion forever. 

2 Samuel 22 A Song of Praise

 ¹ David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. ² He said:    “The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
 ³ my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
   my shield and the horn of my salvation.
He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior—
   from violent people you save me.
 ⁷ “In my distress I called to the LORD;
   I called out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice;
   my cry came to his ears.
¹⁰ He parted the heavens and came down;
   dark clouds were under his feet.
¹¹ He mounted the cherubim and flew;
   he soared on the wings of the wind.
¹² He made darkness his canopy around him—
   the dark rain clouds of the sky.
¹³ Out of the brightness of his presence
   bolts of lightning blazed forth.
¹⁴ The LORD thundered from heaven;
   the voice of the Most High resounded.
 ¹⁷ “He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
   he drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁸ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
   from my foes, who were too strong for me.
¹⁹ They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
   but the LORD was my support.
²⁰ He brought me out into a spacious place;
   he rescued me because he delighted in me.
 ²¹ “The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
   according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
²² For I have kept the ways of the LORD;
   I am not guilty of turning from my God.
²³ All his laws are before me;
   I have not turned away from his decrees.
²⁴ I have been blameless before him
   and have kept myself from sin.
²⁵ The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
   according to my cleanness in his sight.
 ²⁶ “To the faithful you show yourself faithful,
   to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
²⁷ to the pure you show yourself pure,
   but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
²⁸ You save the humble,
   but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
²⁹ You, LORD, are my lamp;
   the LORD turns my darkness into light.
³⁴ He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
   he causes me to stand on the heights.
³⁵ He trains my hands for battle;
   my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
 ⁴⁷ “The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock!
   Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!

The Summit of Green Mountain, Boulder