Psalm 8

"Oh Lord, Our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" Psalm 8:1

One of the reasons I'm drawn to the mountains is that the setting puts me in my place. There is something for me about the grandeur and sheer size of the mountains that reminds me how small and temporary I am in this world. The mountains draw my eyes and mind upward away from the temporary and invite me to consider the eternal. They speak into my soul of God's time and how it is so different than my time. Yet in the midst of the grandeur I find that God speaks in God's own still small voice and says, "Look at those mountains and consider how I have made them. Now look at yourself and know that I have made you too."
Maybe that is why I come to the mountains.