Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand

Taken from one of the 99 switchbacks on the way to Mt. Whitney. If you look closely you can see two of the switchbacks below. A crooked path, indeed. But what a view from the top! Grand!!

Advent

by Sr. Christine Schenk, CSJ

I wait

with quickened hope

for crooked paths

to straighten,

with tough-soul’d

anguish,

while blinded

keepers of the keys

shut out

God’s own.

(If such a thing

were possible.)

I wait,

and will not be

dismayed.

For tiny shoot

of Jesse tree

took root in me

to love

transform,

give sight
set free.

Source: National Catholic Reporter, December 12, 2003 – found on the Education for Justice website.