Mountains speak of authority. The place of Authorship. My dogs, nature and other people look to me as a mountain. And when they do, i am motivated to become one. I try to be a worthy, trustworthy steadfast one. One who stays mored in Love’s ways.

When something flees to you, it calls for a Loving, kind, attentiveness to what they need next to develop. It’s similar with people. Flee to where The Father is. Find his face in all you do. Interpret even your own history by finding his face through it! Things know where it’s safe to be and become. Each of us do. We naturally lean into that shelter of being. And know when we are under it-in the shadow a mountain! We can be those safe spaces for one another. A place to meet the kindness of Father’s Face. A haven from the exhausting brutality of constant competition in the world. Havens for one another’s true names. We need havens of being now more than ever. Let’s be ones.

Flee like a bird to your mountain. Flee to where your true rest and name is. Flee to what is truly safe. And be a knower of that space in Him. And from there, become what you are. Father God be their home of being.

Flee like a bird to your mountain. The place you know refuge of being, safely to become who you already sense you are!

I want to be a mountain weaker or other things can flee to! I want to be a safe zone to become within. I want to prioritize my spiritual formation above my worldly success. I want to actually be a mountain for others to climb and be safe on. What other goal is higher? I want to haven the bird with tender vulnerable wings to cling to until she becomes. All men should want to be spiritual mountains. Safe and beautiful authors and protectors of being for others.

The birds on my land, and my dogs look to me for that daily. To be seen, named, known, and protected to become!

I can at least offer them this much. I want to become a mountain for them, the earth and my wife at least. A place of refuge from the storm. A place to be still, and know. A high place of listening and knowing. To be one who interiorizes the law or ways of God. Who gets them into his bones or response to others, and the skin of my daily interactions. To incarnate my ethics in real time!

Someone who prioritizes the developing the fruits of the spirit above my career or perceived success. One who has prioritized the inner life to where it is becoming the outer. An actual metaphysical safe space, for others. We need more true mountains these days. So many can flee to them. And be.

The native american seer Black Elk spoke of always sitting on the sacred mountain. As he allowed himself to be havened by it, he could haven others. To dwell more constantly in the Almighty, would be another way of saying that. To be a mountain is a gift for the world.