absolute darkness and the typical candle.
okay. so this weekend i went caving for the first time... it was TIGHT (lol literally) but two coolest things:
1.) so we hiked, crawled, wiggled, climbed, chimneyed up, rolled and rolled and rolled (in about 1.5 feet of space- claustrophobic... a little) and finally jordan, steph, becky, me, logan, and tiffany stopped, got as comfortable as you can get when you're laying on tons of rocks, and then we just laid there. we turned off our headlights and laid in the darkest dark on this earth. 1 foot in between each of us, but you would never know it. all you could hear was silence- interrupted now and then by light breathing and the sound of running water somewhere.
so the 6 of us were laying there in silence, and jordan's all like 'dude i have light night vision or something i can see the wall above us'. steph then proceeded to tell us why that was. she said that it's not that jordan could see the wall, it was that his eyes didn't know what to do with utter darkness and so they were creating shadows in his mind to try to compensate for what they weren't seeing. she told us that our human bodies were never meant to be in absolute darkness and so our bodies do not know what to do with it. that's why our eyes start making shadows.
the rest of the time we were laying there, that idea kept floating through my mind- we were never meant to be in absolute darkness.
2.) so we kept laying there. talking and laughing and telling stories, and steph starting telling us about how she did cave tours at the CP, the summer camp she works at. she said that at the farthest part in their route, she has everyone in her group turn of their headlamps and sit in absolute darkness. after sitting in the dark a bit, she starts talking about light. everyone had a tea light and she had a candle. she lights the candle and talks about light illuminating the darkness. at the end of her devo, she does the 'typical' light one candle, then they light one, and so on and so forth, till everyone has a lit candle, but this was the other thought that stuck with me. she tells them that because she has the light, she would probably be able to get them all out, mostly safely, but it would be really difficult and people might get hurt along the way. BUT when everyone is bearing light, they are able to follow un-blindly and take the unique steps they need to to insure that they get out uninjured.
how true is this in our life? we can lead others okay with every sharing out light with them, but that is not the most beneficial way. from the other perspective, we can follow somewhat blindly a person who is bearing light, but if we are not bearing our own light, we will probably stumble a lot, slip and fall sometimes, and not enjoy the journey the way they were intended to.
whoot woo for life analogies in weekend getaways :)
i am so thankful for this weekend and for the people that were part of it. learning to chimney up, up, down, down, and up, ninja tag and a ridiculous game of signs, dominating e-r-s, sloshing through underground streams and sliding down muddy slants, crawling through mud and more mud and more mud :), pushing myself to new limits, committing and liking the ride- a lot, oh and hide and seek, non-fat free food, and more and more and more. oh and bedtime stories by steph and fireside stories with the 1968 sears catalogue... ...very cold showers.
this weekend i felt like i was right where i wanted to be. that's just about the best feeling ever.
and
oh yeah. and locking trent out of the lodge and him getting in through the dog door... that was cool too :)
it was a winner weekend. :) thanks god. that was just in time
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bury them all, in a landfill :).
don't worry- i'm very aware that this song came out when i was like 7. but, being a lover of the past, i broke it out tonight... and i love it so much still. so much truth.
i also know that this music video is just as old as the song... don't judge it. absorb the truth... forget about the 90's-ness of it :)
...cut your burdens loose and just simplify...
...you gotta lay that burden down...
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