Drove and hour and a half from Flagstaff to Mather Campground on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. A few minutes after setting up the camper we spotted a female elk drinking from the water spigot. The park ranger told us she was pregnant. But, she was not afraid of people at all. A few minutes later she walked right up into our campsite and hung out there for a little while!
After we were finished setting up we jumped on our bikes and headed over to Mather Point to watch the sunset. It would have only been about a mile bike ride, only we went in circles for a bit before finding it so it took us a lot longer! It’s mostly uphill on the way there, but the ride back is all downhill. It was fun, but we did it in the dark so it was a little bit scary. That reminds me, we saw the strangest thing in the sky last night... it was a trail of stars, that looked like a train, moving across the sky and then it disappeared! I wonder what in the world it could have been?? (Update: The train of lights was actually a series of relatively low-flying satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet service.)
The Grand Canyon was mind-blowing! I felt like my brain could not process what my eyes were seeing. It was hard to take it all in. I had to remind myself I wasn’t looking at a picture. This morning I was reading the Psalms and it was talking about how the same God that created the earth & everything in it is also our maker and He watches over us, “we are the flock under His care.” It’s so amazing to me that this mighty and powerful God is also so loving and tender towards us.
“ For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods. He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains. The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too. Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!” (Psalm 95:3-7)