Day 30 “A Year of Thoughts”: Take a Walk

“Enoch walked with God; then he was no more because God took him away.” – Genesis 5:24

“Before he was taken, he was commend as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God’ because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” – Hebrews 11:5-6

On many nice sunny days and warm evenings I really enjoy taking walks through town and down the country roads. But those walks are best when I can share them with someone else. My best friend and I like to get out of town and walk through the fields.

The wind whistling in every direction, the tall dried grass clapping as if a parade were in line, the clouds making shapes like dragons or horses in the sky and the sun slowly setting to the west. The walk is full of adventure, excitement, long conversations and meaningful silence. The birds catch our eyes as they float and turn like synchronized areal swimmers. Our shoes kick up the dirt with each step we take.

Sometimes when we walk we don’t have a certain place to we have to go or anywhere to be. We are simply taking the time to walk together, to experience the day together, to get away and see that there is to see. On those walks we learn a lot about each other, we learn how ti slowdown, to skip together, to run, to sit, to stand and to pause to take in each moment like it might be our very last.

It’s walks like this with my best friend that I picture Enoch walking with God. As if they are best friends experiencing each step together. Seeing the world, God created, together. Each step of theit walk more intimate, God learning how Enoch sees the world and Enoch experiencing little by little the presence of God. A walk hardly a walk without a little conversation, the ones with Enoch and God are long and meaningful but not without pauses and silence that carry just as much meaning.

Enoch lived his faith, he walked with

God, he didn’t just practice the presence of God he got to experience it.

I long for me life to be like Enoch’s. For my faith to move me to daily walk with God, daily grow to know his presence more, to learn him, to be intimate with him, to hear and listen and have long conversations.

The story of Enoch is one of hope. Hope that through the weariness of our souls longing to walk with God, that God is already walking with us. Sometimes we have to wake up, open our eyes and see that God is right there, Maybe you should take a walk, get out of town and talk to God, he’s right there.

-Caleb Ross Hunter

I Was Chasing a Sunset.

I like to chase sunsets…

There is just something awesome and majestic about a sunset that just makes me want to chase it. Today while study for a final I got a text from my best friend to go and look at the sunset so I got up and walked over to the window and I could see the orange just bursting through over the top of the dorm that sits across the street from my window.

That little burst of orange was not enough for me…

I knew there was more to this sunset so I threw on some shoes and grabbed my keys and Camera to chase the sunset. I drove out of town down a dirt road toward the brilliant bursting light. There orange and yellow beams ran fading into the blue in the sky and into the dirty brown mud of the fields where I stood.

There running across the fields with a camera and eyes wide open I’m as a child chasing after the sun in wonder. While standing there just gazing into the picture being painted before me a train rolls by and the sounds of the semi’s on the high way remind me I’m still on earth, but wow. What a view? What a picture?

The blood in my hands started turning blue from the cold but there and then I don’t really care about how cold I am. I was chasing a sunset. Something I love to do! I love to chase after the beautiful nature that God puts out there for us to explore.

I would have chased that sunset all the way to california if I could but dinner and more studying for finals was calling me back on campus. Someday I will chase sunsets every night…

Why don’t you chase the sunset? Sometimes it just takes a text from my best friend to get me up and running to see God’s creation. While I was taking the pictures of the sunset I was thinking about how the pictures can’t even capture the experience of the sunset. Next time you see the sunset, stop take it in or get up and chase it, take in as much of the beauty that is created before you. Let the sunset always remind you, as it does me of how great of an artist that our God is…

Chase the sunset and let it lead you back to the one who is more awesome and majestic than the sunset in which he created.

-Caleb Ross Hunter