The Wonders of Mount St. Helens

My mother made a post yesterday on her blog that I wanted to share. 

I actually wanted to post this the other day, but she was like "No, no! Let me be the first one to post! I haven't posted in a while."

So, I acquiesce to her request feeling that it would give me a good reason to be lazy with my post: let her write it out and post it, then post it on my blog and give her the credit. Hahaha!

Sounds good to me! So here you are:

THE WONDERS OF MOUNT ST. HELENS

....BEFORE and AFTER....

Last week we were busy preparing for guests. Loyd & Doris Anderson from 7 Wonders Museum at Mt. St. Helens. Monday evening they shared with us a wonderful presentation about the eruption and “evolution” of the landscape since. What wonderful proof that things don’t need millions of years to carve out the landscape we see all over the world today. 

Steven A. Austin is a geologist who’s done a lot of research on Mt. St. Helens and has written some great books. I also found a nice short video of the initial eruption on YouTube I thought I’d share. We all sat in amazement… I remember the powdery volcanic ash all over the vehicles here. It’s hard to imagine such a thing out here in the plains. We can stand on a hill and see two other states, miles and miles of land, and the lights of towns over 30 miles away. The immensity of a mountain is awesome to us, much less a mountain falling apart right before your eyes.

(KatieJay Note: my first thought when seeing this video was "Nothing....NOTHING in life is stable or reliable, no matter how long it lasts. You finally get in a groove with life, get used to everything, start seeing it as normal, start viewing it as something that will always stay the same, and then WHAMMO! The normalcy of life goes kaaaa-blewy....and your stuck there thinking 'should I just stand here and watch, or SCREAM AND RUN?'...")

Isn’t that how we feel sometimes? In the middle of our little “plain” lives, up grows the mountain. A mountain of doubt, discouragement, fear, or difficult circumstance becomes seemingly insurmountable. Then all of the sudden a solution is presented, or our faith is renewed, or God touches us with some special comfort and the mountain begins to melt away.

“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hense to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” Matthew 17:20

(KatieJay Note: Hehehe... that Bible verse takes on a whole new, impacting meaning when watching the above video, huh?)

AND ONE MORE VIDEO that would not post for some reason....grrr...