Streams of Living Waters

People often ask us, “What do you like most about the mountains?”

The answer comes easily when you stand viewing a scene like this. The desert is a place of struggle. Life desperately hangs on, scrapping for every drop of precious water it can cling to. The mountains are like the source of life. Waters streaming down from rugged peaks give rise to flowering meadows and trees growing toward a Colorado azure sky. When you’re in the desert, you may come away feeling like you’ve struggled and fought an arduous battle. We sometimes enjoy that challenge. But in the mountains, you feel like you’re in the very presence of life itself. Even if we’ve endured hardship to climb some peak, we still come away feeling refreshed and restored. The relief of the cool, crisp mountain air from the oppressive summer heat of the plains below; the streams we cool our hot and tired feet in after a long day of hiking; a restorative night of sleep cradled by a warm sleeping bag against the cool air all compound to increase our enjoyment. 

But as restorative as those mountain waters are, we’re reminded of something that Jesus of Nazareth said, recorded in the Gospel of John: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”  John 7:38 NIV

This photo taken in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, July 2016 with Mt. Neva in the background.