Shatter the Illusion

It is amazing how refreshing a week away from the daily grind can be. My family along with my sister, brother-in-law and nieces spent a week in Colorado, waking up every morning to mountains, chilly air and the fresh smell of nature. It was an awesome and humbling experience. When you can look out from the deck over a steaming mug of coffee and see snow on the mountains in July, you know you are experiencing the true beauty of God’s creation. We took plenty of pictures and I know that I will relive that experience every time I fan through the bountiful displays of ever changing scenery.

Now that I am back to the daily grind, I find that the inner peace is swiftly flying away. The creeping in of the reality that is the work place makes taking an extended vacation worth the time and effort. I do not understand the desire to spend too much time at work and not enjoying the things that life has to offer. There are so many people that do not take the time to get away every year and they are the ones that seem to suffer the greatest stress in their lives. They seem to resent it when you take a vacation like it is undeserved. People need to get away even if it is camping in the yard.

I will try to stay in the vacation mind set for as long as I can. Keep relaxed and not letting the stress of work and life take control of who I am. I am not sure how long I will manage to maintain my state of leisure but as long as I can picture Independence Pass at 12,000 feet, the view of the aspens on the slopes below and the patches of snow that look like sand traps on a golf course, I will certainly be able to block out the worst that life has to throw at me.

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