Spiritual Lens January 27, 2014 Issue

Mountain stream

Text and photograph by Robin Blake—Davis, California

Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Canada

Credit: Robin Blake

During a much-anticipated trip to the Columbia Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies last year, I was in awe of the spectacular canyons, rushing waterfalls, flying spray, and beautiful glaciers and mountains. These lines from a well-loved hymn came to thought:

As sings the mountain stream,
Past rock and verdure wild,
So let me sing my way to Thee,
Thy pure and happy child.
(Violet Ker Seymer, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 16, © CSBD)