tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post1746014246152927207..comments2023-09-28T03:32:47.642-07:00Comments on Cultivating: REALLY belated father's dayJoanna Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02568835279054666132noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-34625123412143441932010-06-27T18:11:33.446-07:002010-06-27T18:11:33.446-07:00Oh, I know what it was that made you think of me. ...Oh, I know what it was that made you think of me. It wasn't the mountain. It was the metaphor of the mountain. <br /><br />It wasn't just the fun of filching my Goretex. <br /><br />It was the audacity we were permitted to creep upon The Massive; to dare to wonder before Towering, Ineffable Beauty; to strive to see The Majesty that cannot be seen apart from the struggle; and to swallow back the lump with swelling eyes, in the euphoria of being in The World of Celestial Immensities.<br /><br />It is to be where Love calls to us in the Making of Itself: clear and unmistakable: "Up! Up; farther up ... farther in!"<br /><br />Yes, Lord.<br /><br />Holy. Utterly Holy. We share that.<br /><br />Above 14,000 feet, up really high - high as the Heavens - is a good place to get a more accurate perspective on the love we find in Father and Child. <br /><br />We have much more to find ahead of us, Jo. <br /><br />Kierkegaard described his own journey "above seventy thousand fathoms"... and he wasn't done counting.<br /><br />That's a lot of 14ers ahead of us.<br /><br />I will wait for you to climb them with me.<br /><br />They are all the metaphor of the Love upon which we stand and creep and strive and struggle and make our way Up in this life ... The Love I have been given to share with you.<br /><br />Do you see that? I see it; in you.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908652871070362693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-4070771073485770062010-06-25T18:50:07.048-07:002010-06-25T18:50:07.048-07:00WHOA - is that McKinley!?!?
Beautiful.
Makes my ...WHOA - is that McKinley!?!?<br /><br />Beautiful.<br /><br />Makes my Suisse blood run hot and heart want to yodel!<br /><br />Pass the De Echte Emmenthaler, and put on your boots!<br /><br />When do we climb?Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908652871070362693noreply@blogger.com