{"id":197,"date":"2013-09-25T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2013-09-25T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:34:50","slug":"clearly-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Clearly Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Boys at Lake Valhalla<\/p>\n

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Our family just went on a hike to lake Valhalla last Saturday. We donned our packs and herded our three wild-walking-stick-wielders and headed up the trail.\u00a0There\u00a0were heavy rains the night before and a\u00a0plethora of strange and lovely mushrooms\u00a0carpeted the ground. Each mushroom was\u00a0considered a photo worthy event and I took 28 fungus\u00a0photos before I finally convinced the boys that\u00a0we had properly documented\u00a0that particular\u00a0mushroom bloom.<\/p>\n

This adventure did take away my blogging time. But it also\u00a0reminded me of why we have camp. Well, one of the reasons at least. And gave me something to say.<\/p>\n

Romans 1:20–“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made….”<\/p>\n

God is here, right in front of us. He can be clearly seen in the\u00a0shocking variety of mushrooms, in the cold rocky stream\u00a0where the boys floated sticks, in the long lean mountain lion and the puffy whistling marmot. He is in the crisp alpine wind snatching through\u00a0our hair as\u00a0we topped the ridge and finally looked down upon lake Valhalla and\u00a0His handiwork is spread out bold before\u00a0us in the deep crystal waters that plunge suddenly into darkness\u00a0two feet out from the rock where\u00a0we ate our lunch.<\/p>\n

And we hold in our hands a small\u00a0bit of God’s glory, here at camp, to share with\u00a0each camper who comes.<\/p>\n

God is in the croaking chorus of frogs in the pond at night, the bright spread of stars across the sky, and in worship songs sung\u00a0outside at Inspiration Point. His\u00a0glory is clear in the soft rustling of meadow grass\u00a0under a summer sun, the bright clean blue of the sky against ponderosa pines, and the elk\u00a0that walk through at dawn.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0your world consists of\u00a0the inside of a house, a school bus, a car, a classroom,\u00a0a gymnasium, and the carefully fenced\u00a0recess toys…it is hard to see God. At camp we are privileged to offer up some of His beauties, and to give campers just a glimpse of God’s many splendors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bull elk during the fires last fall<\/p>\n

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Boo Boo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Boys at Lake Valhalla \u00a0 Our family just went on a hike to lake Valhalla last Saturday. We donned our packs and herded our three wild-walking-stick-wielders and headed up the trail.\u00a0There\u00a0were heavy rains the night before and a\u00a0plethora of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecampfire.camasmeadows.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}