The Burn by Mike
Today our team served at Pueblo Mountain Park Environmental Center, a few miles down the road from EZ Yoke. Our mission today was to eliminate invasive non-native plant species, a fancy phrase for weeding. In spite of the unglamorous nature of our job, our team worked energetically to cut down all the nasty thistles we could find.
Later in the day, we experienced the wonder of God’s creation as we hiked into the former site of the Mason Gulch Fire. We saw all the signs of the inferno: the burnt husks of trees and bare patches of ground that had once been covered in grass. Even though the fire destroyed everything in those hills a few years back, however, new life bloomed everywhere. We found signs of elk and bear and other animals returning to the newborn forest. The new plants and creatures were actually using the burnt out life to grow and thrive. Even the weeds were there: as Jessie noted- it was hard not to stop by every thistle and try to pull it out. It continually reminds us that Christ gives us new life, even through death.