DIRT PATHS

Dirt Path, Flint Hills, KS

Hiking Trail, Aspen, CO

Prayer Flags, Vail Mountain, CO

 "Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt.”—John Muir

These prayer flags were encountered on a Colorado trail with the intention that as the wind flutters through them, the vibration of the prayers and spiritual intention behind them spreads to find fulfillment over all sentient beings. (Note that the wind is coming your way)

Our sense of wind or spirit can’t see them, but prayer flags and their intent reveals them moving among us.

The first two verses in the second chapter of Acts relates the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost as the disciples “were all gathered together in one place.  Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. “

I’ve walked many dirt paths in my lifetime across the prairies of Kansas and the mountains of Colorado and North Carolina as well as the Holy Land.  There are folks that say the best way to be in touch with nature is to walk barefoot, but I kinda like a good pair of boots.  I have a lot of memorable experiences from those paths such as listening to the wind slice through the pine needles at Mesa Verde, or the rustle of tall Bluestem grasses as we hunt prairie chickens in the Flint Hills, or the spirit moving among the overhead caves close to Magdala as we followed in the footsteps of Jesus at the Valley of the Doves.