Proverbs of a 41 yr. old man

Happy Thanksgiving Poem to share with family and friends.

Between Two Mountains. The dip between mountains is called a col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, or wind gap. It is a geological formation that is a low point or opening between hills or mountains in a ridge or mountain range. Depending where you’re coming from this means a lot to the traveler. If you are going down a mountain you will encounter a valley. Its an elongate depression that is commonly drained by rivers with much erosion and degradation. Is that not how life is, you’re coming down through a difficult time or season of your life and the valley seems steep and costly. What a joy when you see a river flowing down below it means that there is life and movement up ahead. Things will be changing soon and the valley is almost over. Keep moving down your break through is coming. The look down over our lives is worrisome but what relief when we see up ahead a col, a notch, a pass, a saddle, a water gap, or wind gap. The place between two mountains that you are so thankful for. Your excited and can’t wait to get up again and climb another mountain, another season. There is also another perspective for those who in their lives are already climbing a mountain but are exhausted. They have tried so hard and feel so far from the top of the mountain they are called to. They look back down to the col, the notch, the pass, the saddle, the water gap, or the wind gap in thankfulness. Gaining hope and strength knowing that the valley is behind them and the joy is before them. The rivers of life flow through the mountains and greener pastures are there for the taking. So, climb higher, step stronger, the valley is behind you and the mountain is yours! In this journey of life we are climbing up and down mountains of victories and trials. Whether going down into the valley or up on a mountain we know there is a space between two mountains where we can find rest and inspiration. Yes, it is in the col, the notch, the pass, the saddle, water gap, or wind gap! (Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4) (Now, as you can see, the LORD has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise, even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old. I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there, and their cities were large and fortified, but the LORD helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.” Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. Joshua 14:10-13) (Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Psalm 95:1-5) Thank you Jesus.