Destiny’s Views

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This weekend as I was hiking through the magnificent wonders of Capital Reef National Park in southern Utah I felt as though I were walking through an endless art gallery of divine contradictions in beauty…changing always with the seasons and the light of the day. Challenging my senses and inspiring me to see that life finds a way….even in the bitter cold of the darkest night and unforgiving heat of the desert summer.

While the desert is not lush and loud like the jungle, it is a feast of color and quiet contemplation.  Thousands of years ago covered in water filled with aquatic life, now dramatically changed to the complete opposite. It must have been just as breath taking to experience in the beginning when it was lush with water and life. I can’t help but wonder if those who saw it then would mourn the transition from shores of beauty to desert canyons.

As with everything in life, we could mourn the loss of the way it was in the beginning or celebrate the evolution of change nourished by mother nature over the years. It’s an example that by adjusting attitude and gratitude, destiny’s view’s are drastically altered.

I felt so blessed to be there in that moment, surrounded by the shocking colors of red rock cliffs and brilliant blue sky. Serenity resides there…..a cathedral of nature….my true church. No religion can own this wonder as theirs alone. It is a feast of blessings that swirl around every person who walks the trails. It speaks to all who appreciate it for what it is now.

It made me connect to the poem below when presented to me this afternoon:

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Invictus By William Earnest Henley

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

…Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate…..I am the captain of my soul.

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