MIND-SCULPTING

I once read the phrase: ‘I too have known the mind-sculpting power of mountains…’ I have too. Of course many things sculpt our minds. Every experience does some sculpting for the good or not so good. ‘Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.’ To live is to learn and be sculpted.

The sculpting power of the mountains, or the sea, or downtown Dallas, Death Valley, Las Vegas… whatever, we are formed by whatever we have experienced. However, some seem to sculpt in a different way than others. Water, trees, dogs, horses, cattle, rocks, rivers, wheat fields, vineyards and peach orchards do a lot more to chisel into me formation that I prefer than many other things that are less natural.  
I suppose it is because when I am out in a natural environment I believe there are ‘burning bushes’ all around me and an angel of the Lord could appear in the bush and I might hear the Lord tell me take off my scandals because I am standing on holy ground. (Exodus 3)

I think this can carve, shape and chisel a person into a different person by having the mind sculpting power of an encounter on the mountain.

“Surely you have read what God said about people rising from the dead. In the book in which Moses wrote about the burning bush, it says that God told Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’” Jesus