Quote Originally Posted by bcipam View Post
If anyone has ever climbed Mt. Whitney, about 2/3's of the way up, after a really brutal, rocky ascent, you will reach an alpine meadow with flowering iris and other wildflowers, a small water fall and clear, meadering stream and you know, I mean you truly know, that this wonderfully beautiful place was designed by God. The first time there I had to drop to my knee and give thanks and I cried and cried cause it was so beautiful
You know bcipam - this makes me happy to read, because it reminds me of experiencing the same things, even though my starting point is different. Personally I'm an agnostic going on atheist, but I've also fallen to my knees and cried from sheer awe. I can't attribute it to a God, but the experience of enormous beauty in the world is amazing, and I'm happy that others can feel the same no matter how or if they choose to explain it.

If God should turn out to exist I have the feeling He'd agree :-)