This also isn't one my typical object lessons from the backcountry since there is no lesson take directly from the pictures themselves. However, the pictures doe represent the culmination of a wonderful day! It's representation of how much the Lord loves each of us! I want to tell you how the Lord gave me one the best birthday presents ever while I was on a backpacking trip.
That morning as we hiked along shoreline of Lake Superior the day started out kinda nasty with mist & fog and strong stiff wind coming off the lake. How strong you ask? Well take a look below. Notice the pant legs of my friends and the blue pack cover. In some ways it was kinda miserable since I had to remove my glasses because the mist was clouding them so I couldn't see but taking them off also presented problems.
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However, as the day went on the clouds, mist, and fog cleared up and brought us bright blue skies and sunshine. Like this.
Then since the weather cleared up and it was my birthday and I was at Lake Superior I couldn't resist jumping in for a swim even with blistered toes. Now that was refreshing and I just love swimming in Lake Superior. Clean, cold, crisp water makes one feel clean and refreshed and ready for anything.
I thought the day couldn't any better than this after starting out so miserable. However, the Lord wasn't done putting on a show. Here was what I thought was a wonderful finish to a wonderful birthday.
At this point I couldn't ask much more I was with good christian friends out in God's creation enjoying the wonderful day an scenery that God was providing but even then the Lord wasn't done showing me His wonders. After the sun set we sat around fire talking about journey so far and what was to come the stars started coming out. One by one. Slowly at first. One would show up here and then there and then they started rapidly spreading across a truly dark sky. I don't get to see the stars like this very often so we just sat stared. Then I noticed something shinning above the lake. It didn't make sense to me. Lake Superior is too big to see lights from a city shinning the sky. Yet there it was. I couldn't figure it out so I pointed it out to my friend and he sat there for about a seconed before he exclaimed "the northern lights!!!" The the Good Lord had His northern lights put a show on for us the likes that I had never seen.
The light grew until it filled across the sky. It would dance and skip. It was mostly green but would have light shades of red and and white. It would morph into different shapes and grow dim only to brighten up so much that it would reflect off the lake. It went on like this for 2 or 3 hours before decided to hit sack. The Lord is always good to us but that birthday will always be special in my mind.
I'm not that great at night time photography but here is a very small taste of what it looked like. If you'll click on it to make it larger and look at it in a darker room you can see the big dipper and fire light reflecting of the stones on the shore and it reflecting light coming off the lake.
So my friend. How is your life going? Does it seem that you're caught in a dreary day with fog, mist, rain and facing a stiff wind? Are the storms life trying to blow you one direction and then another? Keep close to Jesus and trust Him! In the end, in His time He will turn your stormy day into something spectacular that you can't forget.
Psa 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psa 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psa 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psa 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Psa 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! 