The state of our spiritual life
In 2007 I spent two weeks on the island of Kauai. The very day that I arrived I headed out for Waimea Canyon which I had heard described as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific.” Having never been to the Grand Canyon on Mainland USA I only knew what I had seen in photographs. Photographs OF something are simply not the same as being there and experiencing it! How often have we all been hostages to someone’s vacation pictures and while becoming thoroughly bored have wondered why they were so worked up over photographs which basically left us so unexcited? I left my car in the parking lot, went up steps and ramps and was suddenly at the railing overlooking the canyon. The experience of beauty is one that bypasses the rational part of our mind and at first sight of the canyon a primal “WHOA!!!” was…
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