Spruce Mountian, Greenland, Colorado
I have often told people that to live on the plains of Colorado you need to like different shades of brown. In the winter even green is brown. So how does land on the east side of the Rockies get the name "Greenland"?
Spruce mountain (a gem of a five mile hike on which not many people travel) is a bluff that sits on the Palmer Divide. The Palmer Divide receives more precipitation than Colorado Springs: more snow in the winter more rain the summer. The grassy fields that surround Spruce Mountain are actually green in the summer.
You might consider Greenland as an oasis of life in the midst of death. That is our call as Christians; to be life in the midst of death.
Hours before experiencing death on the cross, Jesus told his disciples, "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you." John 15:13-14 ESV
Kermit the Frog sang that "it's not easy being green." In a world where you and I experience many shades of brown it is difficult to be the life God created us to be.
Jesus experienced every shade of brown in his death for us, laying down his life on a dead tree. And in his death we have received life...and we give life; his life to a world dwelling in many shades of brown.
Consider this today: You give life to people by simply being what God in Christ has redeemed you to be. You are an oasis of life in the midst of death.
(Click on picture to enlarge.)
Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
Spruce mountain (a gem of a five mile hike on which not many people travel) is a bluff that sits on the Palmer Divide. The Palmer Divide receives more precipitation than Colorado Springs: more snow in the winter more rain the summer. The grassy fields that surround Spruce Mountain are actually green in the summer.
You might consider Greenland as an oasis of life in the midst of death. That is our call as Christians; to be life in the midst of death.
Hours before experiencing death on the cross, Jesus told his disciples, "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you." John 15:13-14 ESV
Kermit the Frog sang that "it's not easy being green." In a world where you and I experience many shades of brown it is difficult to be the life God created us to be.
Jesus experienced every shade of brown in his death for us, laying down his life on a dead tree. And in his death we have received life...and we give life; his life to a world dwelling in many shades of brown.
Consider this today: You give life to people by simply being what God in Christ has redeemed you to be. You are an oasis of life in the midst of death.
(Click on picture to enlarge.)
Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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