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Garden of the God's, Colorado Springs, Colorado
We've experienced some pretty cold temperatures in Colorado Springs lately as frigid Canadian air decided to pay us a visit. Along with the cold came a little (and I mean a little) dry snow. But this cold, snowy weather allowed me an opportunity for a few pics in the Garden of the Gods.
There is an of advantage to visiting the Garden when it's cold and snowy:There are few people hanging out in the park. For some reason visitors to Colorado Springs don't think about strolling the pathways when it's twelve degrees Fahrenheit. A place crawling with people is in the summer had only four cars in the parking lot.
Yet there are a few of God's creatures that call the Garden of the Gods home no matter what the temperature or how many people wonder around. There were a number of rabbit tracks, deer tracks, and what looked to be cat tracks.
"Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young at a place near your altar, O LORD of Heaven's Armies, my King and my God!" Psalm 84:3 New Living Translation
The sons of Korah are singing about the beauty of God's dwelling place. They're singing about the temple in Jerusalem and how amazing it is for them to make tracks to the temple where God dwells.
Do we desire to make tracks to be near God's altar? I love the beauty of Colorado Springs, the place I am blessed to call home, but greater still is the home where my soul finds rest; in the community of God's baptized. This is not to say that there isn't solace in the Garden, but there are gifts you and I receive in the community of God's people that we don't receive elsewhere.
What joy to make tracks to the house of God.
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013Douglas P. Brauner. ARR
There is an of advantage to visiting the Garden when it's cold and snowy:There are few people hanging out in the park. For some reason visitors to Colorado Springs don't think about strolling the pathways when it's twelve degrees Fahrenheit. A place crawling with people is in the summer had only four cars in the parking lot.
Yet there are a few of God's creatures that call the Garden of the Gods home no matter what the temperature or how many people wonder around. There were a number of rabbit tracks, deer tracks, and what looked to be cat tracks.
"Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young at a place near your altar, O LORD of Heaven's Armies, my King and my God!" Psalm 84:3 New Living Translation
The sons of Korah are singing about the beauty of God's dwelling place. They're singing about the temple in Jerusalem and how amazing it is for them to make tracks to the temple where God dwells.
Do we desire to make tracks to be near God's altar? I love the beauty of Colorado Springs, the place I am blessed to call home, but greater still is the home where my soul finds rest; in the community of God's baptized. This is not to say that there isn't solace in the Garden, but there are gifts you and I receive in the community of God's people that we don't receive elsewhere.
What joy to make tracks to the house of God.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
(Click on picture to enlarge.)
Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013
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