September 7th - Day 14 - Drumheller to Brooks, Alberta

 

The further I get from home, the more panicy I feel! I have to keep breathing and centering to maintain balance. What a change from when I was younger! With age I have become more aware of my own "center-edness", or "at-home-ness" in myself. I'd like that "at-home-ness" to stay in one place! But then, I would be missing so much.......

 

Jessie and I walked in the Badlands this morning while waiting for the Royal Tyrell Museum to open. This is a good time to come - it's still cool and the crowds I saw later haven't arrived yet. I think of "Badlands" as desert dry and loaded with rattlesnakes! Here it is full of life; grasses and many plants, rabbits (big ones!), trees of different varieties, etc. Life survives and grows everywhere I think, in one form or another. Haven't heard or seen a snake yet!

 

Canadian Badlands at Drumheller, Alberta

Hoodoos

 

The exhibits at the Royal Tyrell Museum are awesome. It seems to me that evolution and the millions of years that this earth was in formation are more a hymn of praise to the Creator than believing that "He" created it all in six days. I prefer the image of God's Spirit hovering over it all, bringing life from stage to stage. Then, putting people into the "mix", which makes things very interesting!

 

World's smallest church by Drumheller

old prairie house

 

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