And the Hey, welcome to the Portland, Oregon edition of the Happy Trail Series. We've made it to

Monoma Falls and this is an amazing thing to see.

Six hundred and twenty feet from top to bottom.

It's the second tallest year-round waterfall in the United States

and it is absolutely breathtaking. You can see it from the freeway and as you get right up to it you just are overcome by the immensity of this distance.

Apparently it was owned by a private individual named Mr. Benson

up until the 1900s. That bridge actually is named after him. It's called Benson

Bridge. He owned this waterfall. Can you imagine? Look at my waterfall. Just before he died he

gave it to the city of Portland which later transferred it to the United States

forest agency. Pretty amazing and now of course tons and tons of people visit it every day.

And it's a fitting place for us to launch into our exploration of some of the trails in and around Portland

as we explore this beautiful part of the country but also

take some time to ascend our thoughts and our spirits towards heaven through

this section of scripture that we're going through the Psalms of scripture that we're going through the Psalms of a cent.

If you have your Bible, join us in Psalm 130 for our text this week.

And I'm going to title this message as you're making your way there.

Life is just not fair. And isn't that true? I mean it doesn't take too long as

kids for us to begin saying that exact thing.

That's not fair. That's not fair. If I haven't both said and heard that phrase a thousand times

this week, I mean you think about it child's two or three and they begin to notice inequities my sister went to bed a little bit later than I did that's not fair

This portion of ice cream is a little bit bigger than mine. That's not fair. They got to do this twice. I only got to do it once. That's not fair. And of course we grow up, but we never really lose this standard that we have of fairness

that we require of the universe.

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