Garden of the Gods

The name of the park is blasphemous as it is accurate. We got to enjoy just a sliver of the park, and were content with all the beauty we were able to experience. There were some things we had wanted to see but time simply didn’t allow for it. That seems to be a theme for most of this trip—so much to see and not enough time to see it. We’re enjoying all that we are able to see, but still feeling like we missed out on something. Being closer to God and his creations makes us want to slow down and enjoy, and yet we persist with activities that won’t allow for that. It brings to mind a Robert Frost poem where he muses about his life choices and the path that he chose verses the path that was left untrodden.

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both….” –Robert Frost

Having had only a limited amount of time to see part of God’s natural formations, we had to adjust our mindset with the idea that we were destined to see just what we saw and to take away from it a bigger lesson about how what we want is not always what we will get; what we want is not always what God has destined for us.  We hope that we’re choosing paths in life that will shape us into better individuals, and longing for reassurance that we’ve made the right choices despite the struggles we’re experiencing in our daily lives.