Have you ever had the experience of feeling like you are being watched? Or that someone is very near?
I have.
I suspect the majority of outdoors people believe in God in some shape or form. The reason for this is quite simple: It is just too much of a stretch to believe that the outdoors - in all its majesty - happened by accident. The simplest form of life, springing from primordial soup in some tepid swamp, somehow brewed into human life over the course of several trillion years. Hmmm.
For me that takes way more faith than I possess. I'll stick with what I know and can feel in my bones: An intelligent creator.
No, I don't know how He did it. And there is no sense trying to figure out how and why. After all, if we accept that a being with far greater intelligence than us created our world, who are we to try and mesh the puzzle of how evolution, time, space and dinosaurs fit into the story. It just does.
I know He is there. Whether I am sitting in a tree stand; on top of a ridge somewhere; casting from a boat; or hiking a trail, He is there.
Today I will clear my thoughts for a few minutes and contemplate God. He is there. He is accessible to all of us whenever we are ready.
