FEELING SMALL IN HUGE PLACES
We typically talk about mysteries as if they are problems to be solved. You want to find out why your truck gives off a strange odor when you run the air conditioning, or why your favorite stand makes a clanking noise when you shift in the seat. We want to arrive at our hunting property scent-free and then hunt quietly from our favorite stand, so the goal with these types of mysteries is to solve and remove them.
When our family purchased a piece of ground along the Platte River in Nebraska a couple years ago, I realized I had stumbled into a completely different type of mystery. One that doesn’t signal I have a problem, and one that, quite frankly, I don’t want to remove. It’s the mystery of getting to know a place that is far bigger than me.
