![]() ![]() Block out distractions, soothe your mind and sleep great tonight with this nature white noise!Ĭheck out our Nature Sounds Playlist for more waterfall sounds: The powerful but relaxing water sound will help you fall asleep and remain sleeping all night long. Her new novel “But, Even Now”, written with Jennifer Thomas, is available online at Barnes and Noble, Woodsong Publishing, and other places books are sold.An epic waterfall sound for epic sleep. She is also the co-author of “Everyday Grace for Mothers” and “Everyday Grace for Teens”. Don’t miss it by looking down.ĭenae Jones is a teacher and author of “Love, Joy, Peace”. Our lives are passing us by faster than we care to admit. But friends, here is another real statement: It is then that we need it the most. It all sounds great, but sometimes we just don’t feel like looking up, cheering up, sending prayers up, or putting our chin up. Or maybe we are feeling down emotionally and miss a smile from that friendly neighbor, or that opportunity to hear a sweet voice on the other end of the phone. How much of our life do we miss because we are looking down? Maybe we are looking down physically and miss the cloud formations, the meteor shower, a rainbow, or the colors painted across the sky. Ahhh! At the end of a heavy day, doesn’t that one, simple thing help put everything into perspective? They looked up long enough to pause and be thankful for something beautiful amid the chaos of life. From their phones, from their problems, from the traffic, from the noise and distraction. I just love it when any of them do that! They look up. Amid the tanks, bombs, guns, spiders, scorpions and record-breaking heat, he sent me a picture of the sunset. Right now, my oldest son is in Texas doing training with the Army. A duck on the lake, something new sprouting in our greenhouse, a tiny tree fighting its way out of a rocky crevice, the first blooms of spring, or bright colors beginning to take over the trees in the fall. It’s also common for one of them to send me a picture of something beautiful that they think I would enjoy. ![]() It is a gift, not to be taken for granted. Often, one of them will grab my hand and say, “Come here! You’ve got to see this!” They will lead me outside to see the stars, or a sunset, or a new flower that has bloomed. I love that my family are noticers of the beauty that surrounds them. ![]() But even that pales in comparison to how cool it was to spend that time with my son. We shared a lot of “Wow!” moments together, and it is something that I will absolutely cherish. In total, I think we hiked about six miles that day. We spent the next five hours doing the same thing on two other trails. How cool would it be to hear age-old stories those cliffs could tell? The way the water flowed over ancient rocks. We noticed the details of the surrounding area that I had overlooked in all of my visits before. ![]() The excitement on our faces to have found this little gem together was salve for my soul.įor a long time, we just explored. A little bridge made of stone stretched across a stream in the forefront. There was indeed a peaceful waterfall nestled in a valley of rock formations. Could we have accidentally stumbled upon a waterfall? We walked toward the sound, rounded a corner, and both gasped at the scene in front of us. In the distance, we could hear running water. I didn’t even realize where we were when Joshua stopped and said, “Mom, look up!” Somehow, I hadn’t even realized that we were under a gorgeous rock formation, sprinkled with ferns, wildflowers and a variety of colored moss. It had rained the night before and the rocks were wet, so I was being especially careful of my footing, so I didn’t slip and fall. Back then, in my rush to navigate through rocky tunnels of stalactites, I guess I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the beauty on the topside.Īs my son and I explored, there were a few places where the trail was sprinkled with large rocks or logs, so our eyes were constantly scanning the ground. I had been there before when I was much younger and the caves were the main attraction. My son and I chose our trail, grabbed a stick to knock down any spider webs, and off we went. The caves are now closed in order to aid sensitive bat populations, but the hiking trails are still open as part of the Highlands Nature Sanctuary. We ended up going to what most of us would remember as the old 7 Caves. I woke him up early to go to a surprise hiking destination. It’s difficult to get one on one time in our house, but it is oh, so sacred.Ī few days ago, it was my son Joshua’s turn. Sometimes it’s a family adventure, but sometimes I take just one of our kids at a time. One of our summer adventures has been to drive to as many waterfalls as possible within a 3-hour radius, then hike through the woods to find them. ![]()
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