I just recently bid farewell to the lovely homestead of Montana to drive south for the summer. My wonderful parent’s sent me off with some fresh chocolate chip banana bread and a mocha. This fuel kept me wide awake all the way through to my stopping point.
As I drove down through Yellowstone National Park I couldn’t help but notice, it seemed as if I was in Jurassic Park. When you enter Yellowstone they immediately hand you a brochure. This brochure informs you about the wild animals that will maul/tear you to pieces if you approach too closely. They will also inform you to stay on the board walk at all of the geyser sights due to boiling hot water and mud profusely bubbling from the ground (smells like rotten eggs.)
Also like Jurassic Park, driving through Yellowstone is very slow paced. It’s truly one of the only places I know where you can drive fifteen miles an hour and nobody behind or in front will complain. Everyone just begins to search to try and figure out what the car ahead of them is looking at. Which at times can be stressful not knowing what everyone else has just spotted.
Although the pace was slow, I was very busy throughout the drive. I attempted to stop at each scenic spot along the way to check it out and take a photo while avoiding being gored by Bison (which are everywhere) as well as spot as much wild life as possible (Elk, Deer, Bison, and a White Tailed Fox) and to keep track of as many different states from license plates that I could find, which came down to 42 different states!
Yellowstone was a clear reminder to me how incredible the earth is. God created a pretty incredible place for us to thrive. But 2 Peter chapter 3 tells us that “the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth and everything in it will remain bare,” he is preparing a place that is perfect because we will be in His glory. Greater than the grand canyon and old faithful. A place without sin and sorrow, free from pain and charging bison. A place where everyone from all 42 states are welcome and even the eight that I missed.
God died EVERYONE. And he receives all the glory for creating a beautiful place, for providing us with life, and most importantly for loving us and sending his son to die so that we may see his light and choose to live by following Him.
Signing out from an Applebee’s in Denver.
