Inside Passage

For a week straight I had the blessing of waking up every morning to some variation of a scene such as this. Sometimes with more land masses, never one single island, but lots of little guys out in the water, each with a different story to tell of storms and ship wrecks. Kind of like all those fishermen hangin around. Sometimes with nothing but endless miles of freezing water. Water so pure and blue with an intriguing resemblance to Hawaii waters, yet with this eerie presence and chill of death as to swallow up anyone so unfortunate to take the plunge. But this window into Alaska came different to me. This scene didn't tell me a story of tragedies, storms, abandoned light houses, fishing boats torn in half, and aged float-planes. No, this one just had a lot of fill-in-the-blanks. Across the entire horizon, the Alaskan sun was descending, leaving most of the scenery as a blueish black. Yet it fully illuminated this one straight path leading to another land mass way off in the distance. Had I not been on a cruise ship, but on a boat of my own, I probably would have been persuaded to make my way over to that mountain way back there to explore and hear of new tales of the incredible and legendary Alaska.

Now comes the time when I wonder if we all have to travel thousands of miles to far away lands in order to experience the power and mystique of our God given world. Must we somehow or another throw down gobs of money to travel and explore in order to spark our imaginations and blow our minds? Or can we walk out our back door, lay down on the grass, and listen to the tales of the ants, bees, wasps, and rolli-pollies? Like in Brute Neighbors, an essay from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I think the world has endless lessons to teach and stories to tell if we just give it time to speak. And as far as my personal opinion on religion and politics goes, I've found that the world is so vast and complex, that we humans can't possibly do as much damage to it as what has been preached through our bias agenda based media. I'm not interested in scare tactics through outdated statistics of the polar ice caps, or skewed temperature records produced by bribed scientists that only use favorable portions of their research yield. No I'm interested, fascinated rather, by the natural course of our world which God has set into motion regardless of our actions. Besides, God put us on this planet to be stewards of it and everything else on it. To use its resources to better ourselves and put God's outstanding creations to good use. To use what this world has to offer to praise Him and glorify Him. To consume its animals, harvest its greenery, and extract its abundant riches. 

As my final thought, realizing that this is the most I have ever written on my blog, I just have to say that this is all too good to be "chance". Our world is too magnificent, to glorious, to harmonious to just be a fluke accident. Kudos to you big guy. As an aspiring photographer, I just want to appreciate what you have provided for me and everyone else. 

Amen.