Recap: Week 3

          This week was all about brainstorming.  On Tuesday, I was having a particularly difficult time coming up with things to confess to the class.  I know I have some weird quirks that nobody knows about, but I would have no idea how to convey that to people in an artistic way.  I can run on all four limbs, bark like a dog, my right eye doesn't work... Great start, right? Hmm... I'm trying to think deeper, but I don't have any long lost trauma in my past.
          I wasn't in class on Thursday, because I was backpacking to the summit of Mount Whitney.  It was a sick trip.  While I was surrounded by snow and rock up at 14,000 feet, I hallucinated a little bit.  I saw faces in the rocks.  They weren't trying to hurt me, they were just minding their own business.  After I came out of that trance, and calmed down at the summit, I had a revelation.  There is no way, no matter how you try to avoid it or talk your way out of it, there is NO way that God does not exist.  I had doubted this before.  But after the landscape had absorbed me into it as I experienced Alpine Glow at 5:00 a.m., and the full moon rising from behind the peak of a mountain, and the reflection of moon beams on the snow lighting it up so that we could clearly see a path in the middle of the night, I have no doubt.  My Lord, who I had been running away from for years had shown Himself to me.  I refuse to run any longer.  And I have an idea for a confession now.

Alpine Glow