One of my "assignments" this week was to spend 2-3 hours in a retreat type setting, thinking about how God has shaped me over my life. Specifically the times, places, events, people that helped in my spiritual transformation.
I decided to go for a nice long run in the high desert outside of Kemmerer for my reflection time. I love running in the desert because after just a few miles you can no longer see any sort of real civilization. It is so open and remote here that I can feel like I'm completely off by myself in a short period of time. In fact I only saw one other person the entire time I was out, and it was a hunter on a 4 wheeler.
This was a really good time for me in more ways than one. The last few weeks have been incredibly busy and I hadn't really had a chance to just "get away". Before I left I actually felt a little bit of guilt try and creep its way in saying, "You have so much other stuff to do, how can you just leave for 3 hours?"
But I knew that I needed to get out and do this and spend some extended time in creation and with my Creator.
I won't share all of my details on here since I am writing a paper on all of my thoughts. But I will share that this part of my week has been the best so far. I had a blast running and thinking about my life with God so far. I ended up running a total of 12.5 miles, but the best part was recalling all of the ways that God has shaped me into who I am today.
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