I decided to drive up to campus and go find my old favorite spot to overlook campus and the Salt Lake valley. It has been well over a year since I've been to this old spot. Unfortunately, thanks to advancements on campus, my favorite view is now obstructed by new buildings. Slightly frustrated, I searched for another spot to hopefully watch the sunrise breakthrough the rather overcast landscape.
I drove up to the Natural History Museum parking lot, got out, and decided to go for a walk. I was only wearing sandals because I hoped to just sit and sip my coffee. However, I figured that I wouldn't be going on too adventurous of a hike, so I wandered up one of the many trails, ready to take some photos.
I've attached a few photos from my small hike, as well as another one from earlier in the weekend at Sugar House Park. I have one simple request: Please comment with your favorite quote, scripture, hashtag, etc. of inspiration, hope, and/or encouragement that you like sharing with others. If you have more than one, please share! I'm curious to know what gets others through times of struggle.
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| Sugar House Park |
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
ReplyDeleteSam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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