Pikes Peak

Here we are at the beginning of our journey up Pikes Peak with the mountain behind us. We were wearing T-shirts when we started but by the time we reached the top we were bundled up!

Too bad it's not a real bear.

I have fallen in love with the view. 

America is "Beautiful".

 The wind blowing the snow off the peaks was breathtaking.

The wind was so rough I felt like it was going to knock me down!

 The Alpines and the Aspens were so gorgeous.

When Clint was walking down in the snow he feel down!

It was so funny he was just rolling down and he couldn't stop because he was knee deep in snow!

I started getting scared when we were on this peak because there was nothing but sky and drop offs on all sides of us.

Witness something majestic...check. Pike's Peak was so beautiful at the top I cried, then I cried because I was scared and begged Clint to go back down! He laughed at me so hard I thought we were going to drive off the mountain!

1 Kings 19:11-13

So He said, "Go forth and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

The entry for “Mountain” in Dictionary of Biblical Imagery reads:

Almost from the beginning of the Bible, mountains are sites of transcendent spiritual experiences, encounters with God or appearances by God. 

• Ezekiel 28:13-15 places the Garden of Eden on a mountain.
•  Abraham shows his willingness to sacrifice Isaac and then     encounters God on a mountain (Gen 22:1-14). 
• God appears to Moses and speaks from the burning bush on “Horeb the mountain of God” (Ex 3:1-2 NRSV), and he encounters Elijah on the same site (1 Kings 19:8-18). 
• Most impressive of all is the experience of the Israelites at Mt. Sinai (Ex 19), which Moses ascends in a cloud to meet God.

A similar picture emerges from the NT, where Jesus is associated with mountains. 

• Jesus resorted to mountains to be alone (Jn 6:15), to *pray (Mt 14:23; Lk 6:12) and to teach his listeners (Mt 5:1; Mk 3:13).
•  It was on a mountain that Jesus refuted Satan’s temptation (Mt 4:8; Lk 4:5). 
• He was also transfigured on a mountain (Mt 17:1-8; Mk 9:2-8; Lk 9:28-36),
• and he ascended into heaven from the Mount of Olives (Acts  1:10-12).
• Jesus also designated a mountain in Galilee from which he gave the Great Commission to the eleven (Matthew 28:16). 
• Jesus is both the tabernacle of God among men (John 1:14) and a temple (John 2:19-22) who builds the new temple (Ephesians 2:19-22 [his body, the church]). 
• Hebrews 12:18-24 contrasts Mount Sinai and Mount Zion in the context of the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. God’s people have gone from one mountain to another. Surely these mountains are symbols of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant and have their foundation in the first mountain-temple, the Garden of Eden.