What A Pleasure To Feel Insignificant

In early January of 2015, my buddy Scott shot me a text saying "It's Christmas break. Let's get the guys together and go do something crazy." Within 4 hours of that text message, Scott and I were jumping in a Suburban with our good friends Travis and Justin, set on a path for the Grand Canyon. It was 9 O' Clock in the evening when we set out on the adventure, and the drive was estimated to take 17 hours- courtesy of google maps. The night was full of delirium and exhaustion, none of us that excited see a big hole in the ground. Nevertheless, 18 hours, 14 red bulls, and 4 tanks of gas later, we arrived at what proved to be the most incredible place any of us have ever been. 

Growing up I had always heard of the Grand Canyon. However, I had always come under the impression that if I wanted to see the real wonders of this world I would have to fly over seas to Stone Henge, the Great Pyramids, etc. Little did I know, the largest, most visited wonder of them all was lying a mear 1,000 miles down Interstate 40. The canyon is so deep that no matter where you stand, you can't even see the colorado river below; the hike is so long that signs posted all over the entrance to the canyon warn the impossibility of hiking to the bottom and back up in one day's span; and the hole is so wide that to drive a car around to the North side form the South, one would experience a completely different weather forecast and would enter a different state. This thing is huge, and I quickly learned that I, in turn, am very, very small.

So what's the real point of all this gloating? Prior to the spontaneous adventure, I had always believed in God based off of faith and what I had been taught alone. I had never witnessed a blind person see, seen gravity become defied, or wine miraculously turn into water, but the moment I stepped foot on the edge of the far South Rim of the Grand Canyon I knew there was someone above much greater than man. Someone with a hand mighty enough to carve out such an incredible landscape with the flick of the wrist. I realized in that initial moment what a tiny speck I was in such a massive universe- what a pleasure to feel insignificant.