Photo ©2024 by Chuck Davis
Commentary ©2025 by Chuck Davis
Monday, May 5, 2025
This view of Chimney Rock in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is only possible after a strenuous ascent along the Necklace Valley Trail. Vigorous “Off-Trail” scrambling eventually leads to the Tank Lakes and classic views.
On this day, the clouds and the setting sun laughed as they watched me try to capture the dynamic changes before all the light was gone.
Standing on the plateau, the peaks deceptively beckon to us. The landscape hides the cliff bands that drop 1600 feet to the intervening valley floor.
Our life is much the same, filled with peaks and valleys. In Exodus 32, we read about Moses meeting with the Creator God, a true mountaintop experience. Contrast that with the valley low he found as his family worshipped a god that they had created.
Without the valleys, there would be no mountains. Such a plain life that would be. God calls us to the mountaintops while placing the valleys in the way. Ascending according to His plan results in joy everlasting.