"the Here & There of God"

We say:
God is on the mountain top, God is in the valley.
Yet even so, this does not give us an adequate picture. God is in the Highest of Heights, and the deepest of depths, and yet, He is even far beyond both.
People often speak of God as if He is something to be reached, or attained to, as if God is at the top of a mountain we can climb. This is how we often descibe our journey with Christ; as climbling "the mountain of God". This is a fine illustration of our need to strive continually for God, but it falls completely and utterly short and fails to realize the "Here & There" of God.

We often think of us and God being on a linear scale of some sort. "I am 'HERE', God is 'THERE'.--so I need to travel from "Here" to "There"....And of course we, as "good Christians" know that journey is impossible on our own.
However, I believe not only is the journey impossible, but the conceived path of the journey is completely mistaken. God is NOT at the top of a mountain, God is NOT in the depths of a valley. (though in a very real sense He is in both) God is on a completely different unconceivable scale. We cannot ascend to God, because He is not even in our realm of conceivability. Hence our relationship with God is beyond a linear journey, up and down, and across mountains. God's journey for us is so much greater; it is up, down, across, through, in, beneath, around, and beyond.
It is NOT a journey for those who are considered strong, but rather for those of us who know we are weak.

Pictures of Northern Ontario

These are just a few of the pictures that I took in Ontario on my way out west. Later I will post some pics from Banff and Lake Louise.

In Calgary

Yo yo,
I am sitting in the lounge and it is HOT and STINKY....freshman are having a dance party. YIKES! Pretty cool group of freshies actually.
I got out to calgary alright...drove out, spent a day and a night in the mountains..SO AMAZING!!!! I camped out just under a tarp pretty much.....it was super cold...around 0 degrees but its all good. I went out for breakfast at some little place in Canmore and then headed to school. All in All a great trip.

It's been a pretty crazy last few days. I have three rad freshman as roomates. Today was registration...the worst one of my life....they messed up on everything!! I was there from 930am-3pm and was late for my meeting with Dallas at First Alliance. I am really excited for working there!!! Sound like some amazing stuff is going to be going on there this year!!

Tonite after the bbq at rez a bunch of us went swimming in the Bow River, we call it the "Bow Blitz"....this was the fall edition....coming soon...Bow Blitz Winter edition.....thats gonna be cold!!

anyways...classes start tomorrow....giddy up.