Gone Campin'

Well we are home from our favorite place on earth.  Instead of writing about the trip, the girls and Chris have told me that I should share my journal entry from our second day up at Wrights lake, so here you go....

"Is there anyplace as beautiful as Wrights Lake? I am yet to see it.  Coming up here, for me is like visiting my "Mt. Sinai," the place where God dwells.  Why does God seem closer in this place? Because His beauty, the beauty of who He is, the beauty of what He wants for us, is spoken in the landscape and wild life of this place.  It's a place where as I sit, I can almost feel the fingerprints of the Father.  A mere word, even a whisper from Him, and this mountain came into being.  

   As we drove up Wrights Road yesterday, I couldn't wait to get my window down and breathe in the fragrance around us.  To smell the pine trees, whose needles smell like Christmas and also fresh cut wood: and yet it's mixed with the sweet smells of thousands of wild flowers.  Even the dust that is kicked up by our truck smells musty and woodsy.

No matter how many years we come up here, I'm still anxious to come up over that last hill in the road, and get my first look at the granite mountains that surround the lake in all their majesty.  To me, I've often thought that they seem to protect the lake and this beautiful place.  Almost as thought they are keeping the rest of the world from finding out this place is here.  The colors that seem to pop out to me are blue, green, and pink.  The sky is blue, while the water is a clear green, that looks cool as the sun sends sparkling light across it, and I am anxious to feel it on my feet.  The mountains with the sun shadows on it, are a coral pink, and they reflect across the surface of the water.  WOW! All of this has hit my senses in the 30 minutes it has taken us to drive up the mountain, and the words that keep going through my mind are, "I lift up my eyes to the hills, from where does my help come from"  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth."

Needless to say, it was wonderful, and we made many great memories together!  I am so thankful for this last week, it was time I will never forget with my family!