The Grand Canyon

May 16, 2014

-The Grand Canyon is located in Arizona and is a mile deep and close to 18 miles wide.

-In total this national park covers 1900 square miles- 1.2 million acres

"The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of the earth." 

I spy Destiny!



Our girl at the Grand Canyon

I think about our day here at the Grand Canyon (which is definitely not enough time) and I'm just at a loss for words. For hundreds and hundreds of years people have been coming here to the very place I stand and tried with words to explain what is before them. I have thought of many words but none can even begin to give it justice. And then I started to think maybe that is why it is so awe-inspiring and so monumental... Because there are no words that can. Maybe it is there only to humble us, to put our tiny minuscule lives into perspective. Maybe the canyon takes our words away so we can stand in quiet reverence of it and the One who made it. This is sacred ground just like when you walk into a grove of redwoods who are hundreds of years old. There are no words.... only quiet whispers of gratitude.

You are not in control of how the canyon makes you feel... it takes over completely. All you can do is breathe deeper than you ever have before as you stare miles and miles deeper into her. Every insignificant little problem I may have been secretly stressing about fades away. All that I can think about is how could I get into the canyon. I want to climb down, even if its 26 miles. Because maybe if I climb down there I can be apart of it and the One who made it. Maybe down there I can breathe it all in and soak up its grandness and purity. If I could go down there maybe everything else in the world could disappear and I could sit in worship and praise for all the days of my life. 

Where I am standing right now, this is holy ground.

Somethings aren't meant for us to describe. Maybe creations like this have different effects on all who lay eyes upon it. Maybe rather than waste my time trying to tell you about it, you should just go. Go experience it. Embrace it. Stare. Soak it all in...... 

"It seems like a gigantic statement for even Nature to make all in one mighty stone work. Wildness so Godful, cosmic, primeval, bestows a new sense of earth's beauty and size... But the colors, the living, the rejoicing colors, chanting morning and evening in chorus to heaven! Whose brush or pencil however lovingly inspired, can give us these? In the supreme flaming glory of sunset the whole canyon is transfigured, as if the life and light of centuries of sunshine stored in the rocks was now being poured forth as from one glorious fountain, flooding both earth and sky." -John Muir

"Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, and for all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see. " -Theodore Roosevelt