Cataract Falls

A long holiday weekend was all we needed to take off and go on a little day hike. Cataract Falls was on my California bucket list so we gave it a try. Brent and I read reviews and information on the hike. He kept seeing words like "steep" and "difficult" to describe the hike. I saw words like "beautiful" and "gorgeous". So with hesitancy if one would be worth the other, we set out. It was indeed both descriptions, and well worth it. The hike is low in a valley and damp and humid like a jungle so the trails were damp which is what made the hike difficult. But oh the hike was so green and mossy and there were so many waterfalls. It was just beautiful.

Banana Slug

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”

And he replied:

“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”

So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

So heart be still:

What need our little life

Our human life to know,

If God hath comprehension?

In all the dizzy strife

Of things both high and low,

God hideth His intention.

God knows. His will

Is best. The stretch of years

Which wind ahead, so dim

To our imperfect vision,

Are clear to God. Our fears

Are premature; In Him,

All time hath full provision.

Then rest: until

God moves to lift the veil

From our impatient eyes,

When, as the sweeter features

Of Life’s stern face we hail,

Fair beyond all surmise

God’s thought around His creatures

Our mind shall fill.

The Gate of the Year 

by

Minnie Loiuse Haskins