Higher Air

It was a day filled with family.  Eastlick family breakfast at Danielle and Morgan's.  Hall of Fame dinner and awards.  We got double our money.  Both mine and Grant's dads were inducted into the Scott Valley Hall of Fame tonight. Congratulations to a couple of great guys!  The generations of ball players in our families since their high school years has been awesome.

Tonight my "fine figure of a man" and I took the puppies and headed up.  Up to overlook the valley floor below.  There are times when the need to get out of the "valley" overwhelms me and just being in a spot to overlook the fields of various shades of brown and green is what I need.  Psalm 23 has spoken to me for a long time.  "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death".  It's real.  It's hard.  But mostly I believe that walking through the valley is a season and one of these days we will be in the hills, standing in the gap. 

As darkness descended upon the view and in the hills, the tears flowed.  Release.  There are just some times when this momma's heart just needs a good cry.  Sitting in the darkness on this warm summer evening, knowing that Fall is coming quickly and time marches on, there is a knowing, once again, that Hope is in Our Maker.

So I think that my need for higher air is just an indication that healing in is in the wings and gives me a glimpse of what is to come.  No matter my elevation, I will keep looking up.