14 Thousand Feet and Burned

Posted on | July 2, 2007 | Comments Off

I (Chris) hiked Mt. Quandary, one of Colorado’s 14ers, on Saturday with a friend from WorldVenture and a couple of his friends. It reminds me what a gift living in Colorado is. During the hike I believe I had some of the best time in prayer I’ve had in a couple weeks. Pacing life has to be one of the largest factors for the health of my spiritual walk. I find I do most of my praying on the run, going from one good thing to another. Doing things for Jesus and yet squeezing down time with him out.

Shoot. I mean, this stuff is so Christianity 101, but it’s hard to work it out in the real world.

Here’s the photo album of the trip. What you don’t get pictures of are my tremendously burnt legs. I’ll spare you. Seems I’ve been sitting at a computer with pants on for too many months.

Quandary Peak Quandary – Jun 30, 2007 by Teamwynn Chris, Greg, Will, Scott, Wil, Jim and Josh tackled Quandary Peak, a 14er, last weekend. View Album

Kara served at church all weekend singing for the services. Being transparent, church has had some sharp edges lately. People who make you ask, “Are you confused on the whole love one another thing or what?” And Kara, who has the softest heart I’ve ever known, takes the weight on these broken relationships (most of which are things we’re watching our friends walk through) and grieves over them as her own.

—Side note: I apologize if I bang the “Kara is awesome” drum all the time. I don’t want to be annoying. I think its in my nature to see to the potential in people in general — I got that from Mom. But then with a lady like Kara, it’s just so ridiculously easy, and not to mention stunning when I see it. I don’t realize I’m bragging on her again until a paragraph or two later.

Point illustrated.

But this weekend was a good weekend. It seems God has answered in small way with more peace concerning the burdens on my lady’s heart. And we’re thanking him for that today. In your praying, please lift up Kara’s ministry at Denver Health Emergency Room. It is a thankless place most of the time and the patients are of the roughest breed often. While helping sometimes even save their life, she can be verbally abused and potential physically assaulted. A co-worker of hers was even bitten a few days.

God has certainly called her to be his hands and his agent of comfort in that place, but to remain a tender heart in that environment is a daily, deliberate effort.

I’ve cut out one of my favorite songs from the worship teams singing this the weekend and placed it into our podcast. Look for the podcast player on the right of the website about half way down.

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