I tend to see the mountains inverted. The thing I like about them as a description is that it seems to me that our spiritual walk takes time to develop.

Yes, there is grace but that grace seems to be made evident as it rolls back the layers of pain, grief, self-loathing, misunderstanding, and conditioning.

I hear you on the mountains if we look at it as a matter of spiritual technique. “I meditate 26 hours a day, what about you?”

“I’m leveling up with quantum gnosis that affects the 36th layer of my DNA, it’s just 10,000 for an initiation.”

But this seems to be different than the experience of “I used to believe Jesus was the only way or the Bible was everything. . . but then life happened and God was still there.”

Personally reading through your writings I see some mountain crossing and am reminded of your piece that was titled something like “a calling is closer to a drunken tattoo.”

I think it’s important to remember these mountains because they give a sense of motion.

It takes a while before most people can trust in grace or even feel it. We’ve got a lot to unlearn. If you have the image of a mountain or a descent then you can at least have faith in the process.