I mentioned in last week's podcast that we have family living with us right now and little

ones and it's beautiful and it's full on chaotic and it's trikes in the kitchen and bicycles

going around while making breakfast and you know music and singing and and we're still

singing jingle bells here in February all that yeah precious but dream let's just be honest

raising toddlers is a young man's game and the other night I just found myself fried after a long

day fried from the war fried from the battle fried from a lot of different things and then I come

home and it's beautifully chaotic and so I call my office and I'm like what do I need what do I

need what do I need and I started watching I paused on my computer a nature show focusing on

it was who falls down in South America she's gorgeous gorgeous falls and just watching nature in

its glory and just beauty I have my headphones on so I'm not hearing the chaos in the house right

now I'm just taking in the beauty of nature and it reminded me of of a passage from get your

life back where I describe going to Yellowstone and going to Yellowstone Falls almost on a pilgrimage

of soul care and I I've been to Yellowstone a ton of times because you know we love it we love the

West and the teetons and all that but I had never been to the brink of the falls and I found a trail

that takes you down there I'm standing on the precipice looking it's just a little railing that you

can look over so there's nothing blocking your view you're watching this magnificent waterfall

from the top spilling down and here's what I wrote it's hard to describe the experience the river

is clear smooth translucent green right as it slips over the brink looking down it becomes a

churning cataract of unceasing foaming waves plunging into the abyss like the breakers of ocean

waves but one on top of another all spray and foam and deep hues green in the depths at the top

turning lavender in the long plunge water is so life-giving and the delusion cataract was not

violent but forceful in his plenitude living majesty unceasingly renewed so that as I leaned over

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