Sometimes to hear God you need to step outside so there is nothing but him, you, and all he created. My parents and I spent the past Easter weekend in Natural Bridge, Kentucky. It was a short vacation that I needed. We left Thursday afternoon and stayed till Monday morning. I had been feeling a little out of my usual happy self and needed a break from school and work to just get away.
The area is full of beautiful trails so we spent the weekend hiking every trail we had time for. Easter Sunday was a rainy morning so we woke up had our own kind of service with the three of us. After lunch we found a short hike along a creek. It was the perfect last hike of the weekend. Although we had done our own service together earlier in the day I feel like this was when I really told Jesus how truly thankful I was for his sacrifice. Without Easter how could I enjoy this moment as much as I did.
When I am out on a trail I feel God’s voice more than anywhere else. Saying things like “child do you see this arch? I made it for you and all my children to see and to know my power and love.” When I go out hiking with my parents and I end up a little further ahead, I always find myself in a conversation with God. Mostly I ramble on and he just listens. At just the right moment I hear the wind whistle through the trees, or the pitter patter of water falling on to the trail in front of me, it’s in those moments I know God is taking back. He never has to say much but in those moments I hear everything he wants me to hear.
Job 12:7-9 – But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
